CONTINENTAL ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1919, Page 5

CONTINENTAL ELECTIONS.

M. CLEMENCEAU'S SUCCESS. SOCIALISTS LOSE MANY PEATS, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Paris, Nov. 18. The 548 members elected arc divided as follows:—Left Republicans 117, gaining 51 and losing 17 seats; Radicals 52, gaining 20 and losing 2fi; Radical Socialists 71, gaining nine and losing 75; Republican Socialists 24, gaining seven and losing 15; Unified Socialists 54, gaining seven and losing 50; Dissentient Socialists C, all gainß; Progressive Republicans 120, gaining 78 and losing five; Liberal Aetionists. 73, gaining li) and losing six; Conservatives 31, gaining 12. and losing 12, M. Olemenceau, commenting on tlie sweeping majority of the Nationalist Republican bloc and the overwhelming of the extreme Socialists, owing to their frank advocacy of Bolshevism, jocularly remarked: "How dull the Chamber will be without an Opposition!"—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Of 518 members elected to the new Chamber 327 are new men. This is an outstanding feature of the elections, for it signifies not merely the transfer of seats from the Republican parties to the right, but a movement towards the right inside the Republican parties themselves. BELGIAN ELECTIONS. BIG SOCIALIST GAINS. Brussels, Nov. IS. In the elections up to the present the Socialists have gained 23 seats, In from the Catholics and 8 from the Liberals; but the Catholics retain their majority in Parliament.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. The elections passed in almost uncanny calm. The Caiholic majority is disappearing. The Socialists have gained enormoußty at the expense of the Catholics and' Liberals, and it is forecasted that the new Chamber will consist of 70 Catholics, 3S Liberals, anil Go Socialists. The remaining four scats will be divided between the Front Party and the Combatant Party. ITALIAN ELECTIONS. MINISTERIAL VICTORY. Rome, Nov. 17. The election returns indicate a victory for Signor Nitti, the present Premier. Little interest is being taken in the elections, It is believed that the Socialists have only secured about 100 seats out of 525. Supplementary elections in Trieste and the Trentino will he held later as the Austrian Treaty is not yet in oper-ation.—Aus.-N.Z'. Cable Assn.