GERMAN ELECTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 7

GERMAN ELECTIONS.

Unofficial Forecast Favours Socialists. STATE OF PARTIES. . (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) BERLIN, May 21. The general election for the Reichstag was held yesterday throughout Germany. An unofficial forecast of the constitution of the new House is as fcollow: — Socialists 160 Nationalists 70 Centre Party (i!) Communists 58 People's Party 54 Democrats 25 Economic Party 23 Fascists lti Bavarian People's Party .. 19 Other Parties 6 Another forecast states that assuming predictions as to the distribution of surplus are fulfilled the state of parties in the new Reichstag will be:—Socialists, 150, gain 19; Nationalists, 72, loss 39; Centre Party, GO, loss nine; People's Party, 52, gain one; Communists, 51, gain six; Democrats, 25, loss seven; Bavarian People's Party, 1(1, loss three; Economic Party 23, gain six; Fascists, 13, loss one.

The Socialists polled more than 9,000,000 votes compared with the Nationalists, 4,344,000; Centre Party, 3,612.000; People's Party, 3,094,000; Communists, 3,080,000.

Herr Streseinann, Foreign Minister, was actually defeated in Bavaria, polling only 7000 votes instead of the necessary ISO,OOO, 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 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 the Nationalists. It is estimated that 80 per cent of the electors voted in Berlin. The polls were heavy elsewhere.

PINK SOCIALISM. HOHENZOLLERNS FADING. (United Service.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 21. The "Daily Mail," in a leading article on the result of the German elections, says that it distinctly favours peace, and that the advocates for war revenge were defeated by large numbers. The strongest party will be the Socialists, the German variety which is much less extreme than the British. The most important feature is the fading of the Hohenzollerns. Germany is definitely turning from Monarchism to Republicanism. The newspaper "Taglischc Rundschau" asserts that Cabinet will tender its resignation to-morrow.

PRUSSIAN POLLS. NATIONALISTS DEFEATED. .\ustralian Press Assn.—United Service.> (Received 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, May 21. The elections for the Prussian Diet fvere held simultaneously with the general election, and they also resulted in a heavy defeat of the Nationalists »ho lost 42 out of 109 seats. The Socialists are the strongest party with 114 seats, the Communists have 50, and all the others combined 219. i