SOCIALISTS SCOOP POOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 360, 22 May 1928, Page 9

SOCIALISTS SCOOP POOL

GERMAN ELECTIONS NATIONALISTS’ HEAVY LOSS STRESEMANN DEFEATED (United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyr\j h : > (Australian P.A.—United Service) bleed, noon. BERLIN. Hond o The "Taglische Rundschau” asserts that the Cabinet will tender The general election for the Re it istag jvas hold throughout Germany. An unofficial forecast of the : follows: . Socialists 160 Nationalists To Centre Party ............ 69 People'** Party* V. *• *.*. II ?»4 i €mi crats . Economic Party 23 Bavarian People's Party .... 19 Other parties t> i Another forecast states that, assumof'surplus are fulfilled the slat of parties in the new Reichstag will l>t Socialists. 150. c.iin 19; Nationalists, loss 39: Centre Pariv. 60. loss nine: People’s Party, 52, gain one: Communists. 51. gain six: Democrats. 25. loss seven: Bavarian People’s Party, 16. less i three: Economic Party, 23, gain six; 1 Fascists. 13. loss one. The Socialists polled more than nine i million votes, compared with the N STRESEMANN DEFEATED Dr. Streseniann. Foreign Minist. i was actually defeated in Bavaria, polli ing only 7.600 votes instead of the ; necessary 60.000, but he will be elected ! on the party’s national list. The “Allgemeine Zeitung** says the Socialists’ triumph is subdued by the failure to crush the Communists. The elections for the Prussian Diet were held simultaneously with the general elections, and also resulted in a heavy defeat of the Nationalists, who lost 42 out of 109 seats. The Socialists are the strongest party, with 114 members. The Communists have 5«». and all the others combined 219. FROM MONARCHISM GERMAN PEOPLE TURN (Australian P.A.—United Service) Reed. Noon. LONDON, Monday. The “Daily Mail,” in a leading article on the result of the German election.-, says they distinctly favour peace. Tinadvocates of war and revenge were numerously defeated. I The strongest party will be the ' Socialists, the German variety of whit h | are much less extreme than the British. A most important feature is the | fading of the Jlohenzollerns. Ger--1 many definitely is turning from monj archism to Republicanism. | A Berlin message says: The Nationalists lost heavily in the large cities, the Socialists and Communists gaining about 15 per cent, compared with the last election at the expense of tne Nationalists. It is estimated that SO per cent, of the electors voted in Berlin. The polls were heavy elsewhere. The Socialists and Communists strengthened their hold in Berlin proper. Potsdam was firmly Nationalist. There were 100 arrests there. SENSATION AT POTSDAM A sensation was caused at Potsdam by the ex-Kaiser’s fourth son, August, appearing on a platform to speak on behalf of the Labour Party. He assured the audience of his own democratic principles, and said the dynasty to which he belonged had made a fatal mistake in holding aloof from the masses. Had his father not committed that blunder he might still be ruling. It is interesting to note that 2.000,000 new voters have sprung up since the 1924 elections, who have no knowledge of pre-war Germany and cannot contrast the Republican regime with monarchical conditions.