POTSDAM SENSATION

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 11

POTSDAM SENSATION

KAISER'S SON FOR LABOUR Australian' Press Association. (Received 21st May, 2 p.m.) '■'- .''. BERLIN, 20th May. ; It-is estimated that 80 per cent, of the electorate voted in Berlnf-and voting was heavy elsewhere. t The, returns will be made knbVn to-morrow,', though the earliest indicate that the Socialists' and Communists " have strengthened their hold in, Berlin, proper. Potsdam is firmly Nationalist. A hundred 'arrests are reported. , There was a sensation -in Potsdam when the ex-Kaiser's fourth son appeared on a platform to speak on behalf of the labour Party. ". He assured his audience as to his own democratic principles, and added that the dynasty to which he belonged made the fatal mistake of holding' aloof from the masses. ; Had his father not com--mitted that blunder, ho might still have been ruling. . ♦ It is interesting to note that two, million new voters have sprung up since the 1924 elections, with no knowledge of pre-war Germany, and unable to contrast Kep'ub'lican with Monarchical conditions.