GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

MARTIAL LAW IN HAMBURG. DESIRES TO RETIRE TO ENGLAND.

Received Jan. 27, 8.5 p.m,

Amsterdam, Jan. 24. Herr Eisner, in consequence of the defeat of his party at the elections, expresses his intention to retire with his family to England. Strict martial law has been proclaimed in Hamburg against the Spartacus terrorists. Imported troops quelled a disturbance in which six were killed and several injured. Nobody is allowed in the streets after eight o'clock in the evening. The railway traffic is at a standstill.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION.

USED AT THE ELECTIONS.

Received Jan. 27, 2.55 p.m.

London, Jan. 24. Proportional representation in a novel form was used at the German elections. If there were ten seats in any area the party which secures 10 per cent, of the votes can claim one seat, a party with 20 per cent, two seats, and so on'. Prior to the election each party handed the returning officer a list of their candidates, arranged in central order. Voters do not vote for the individuals, but for the 'whole list. The deputies were elected according to order upon the party's list—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

RESULT OF ELECTIONS. THE BALANCE OP POWER. Berne, Jan. 24. The results of the elections in Wurtemburg and Baden place the Majority Socialists in the leading place without an absolute majority. The Republican Democrats hold the balance of power. They have more in common with the Majority Socialists than with the other parties.

The results in Bavaria place Eisner's party nt the bottom. Hiß resignation of the Premiership is regarded as inevitable. Here also a coalition of Majority Socialists and Republican Democrats is expected.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association.

INCREASING MILITARISM. London, Jan. 24. The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspondent states that the increasing manifestation of militarism is creating the utmost uneasiness in Berlin. This has been augmented by the fact that the official version of the murders of Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg is almost universally discredited. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

PROJECTED UNION OF SOCIALISTS. Copenhagen, Jan. 24. Owing to the results of the German elections the Independent Socialists are summoning a conference to consider rejoining the Majority Socialists. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.