GERMAN ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 8 February 1907, Page 3

GERMAN ELECTIONS.

SPEECH BY THE KAISER Berlin, Fcbrary 6. The crowd at midnight enthusiastically cheered the Kaiser and the Empress at the Palace. The Kaiser declared that if all classes and creeds stand united Germany would be able to ride down all her enemies. He hoped the victory was a jnst one; not a momentary, transient patriotic impulse, but a firmly-rooted determination to persist in the course adopted. The German Centre Party replied to the Archbishop that now, as during t\e 1887 elections, most reverent submission would be shown to ecclesiastical matters, -but in political affairs the Party claimed unrestricted freedom of decision.

[Hostility between the Centre and the National Liberals in Bavaria resulted in the former instructing its followers to yote for Social Democrats in the second ballot. The Archbishops of Bamberg and Munich opposed this, owing to the attitude ot the Socialists oa religious and monarchist question!.]

FINAL SESULTS. London, February (!. Eenter's agency in Berlin reports th»t the final composition of the Reichstag will be as follows: Centre Party, 105. Conservatives, 59. National Liberals, 5. Social Democrats, <t:l, Radical People's Party. 28, German Imperialists, 21. Poles, 20. Economic Federation, 15. Eadical Union, 11. Independents, 10. Agricultural Union, 8. German People's Party, 7. Alsatians, 7. German Reform Party, ti. Guelph, 1. Dane, 1. The Socialists lost thirty-six seats. [The strength of the parties in 1903 was :—Clericals 100, Conservatives 73, Social Democrats 72, National Liberals 50, Eadical Left 2(1, Moderate Radicals 9, Poles 16, Anti-Semites U. AlsaceLorrainers 0, smaller parties 23, J