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GERMAN POLITICS. [Reuters Telegrams. J (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) BEIiIJN, February 22. After the defeat of the Prussiar Cabinet, the Centre Party met am passed a resolution expelling two members who purposely absented themselves from the sitting of the Diet. 'Jlie meeting decided to resubmit Hen Marx as a candidate for the Premiership at the election on March 20. Marx has consented. A GERMAN PLEBISCITE. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) BIfRiLIN, February 21. Cine of the strangest plebiscites ever proposed will shortly he taken in Prussia concerning a wedding gift to the ex-Crown Prince. Twenty years ago four thousand Prussian townships clubbed together to give the then Crown Prince an ornate, elaborate silver iU ner set, together with candclabiti, centre pieces costing half n million prewar marks The silver smiths put so much work into it that the gift was not completed till after the outbreak of war, when it was deposited in the Roiehsbnnk for safe keeping till a convenient opportunity for presentation. The exCrown Prince now seeks delivery, but the Reic.li.sbnnk does not feel justified in handing the gift over, now that the Prince is a private citizen, and no longer the. Royal personage for whom the presentation was intended. A plebiscite of the originl donors is to be taken to decide the fate of the gift..
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1925, Page 3
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