WILHELM WAITS

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18724, 22 June 1926, Page 9

WILHELM WAITS

jgFBBENDUM RESULTS CONFISCATION NOT CARRIED jIAJORITY, BUT NOT LARGE ENOUGH. gatS-tStSS ASSOCIATES—OOrTKIOHT.) ', (Baceived June 21st, 7.15 p.m.) BERLIN, June 21. Ifc.Kafoef Wilhelm, at Doorn, sat jp turf* l ttro °' cJocJc in the morning, !? hear the latest results of the referjstan, w hJctl wore te 'epboned from foe public of Germany learnt the pgnU of the voting by means of djttrie sky 18 ' also bv special is(s« of the newspapers every half hour, jjjl it was clear at midnight that excrdWiition- bad been defeated. jjajvy rain damped the spirits of jiril demonstrators, but did not materially decrease the voting. and Socialists left nothjj« to chance. Voters who could not rtlktfere carried to the polls on streteies. ']. flare was a reign of terrorism in B»J! country districts, however, MonirefcW a ff ents attending polling bootha ad tftHug down the names of voters. ;■ Hoj dpenly stated that those* wio •■ Tbt«d 1» favour of expropriation would U jeWfoly ealt witn Jatar. Ths**r«t disturbances were at Am- , nffldorf, near Halle, where, in a free ■ JgM-Mtwen Communists and Radicals, ilioti frert ,flredj twenty being injured.

OFFICIAL FIGURES. BUfiß MAJORITY FOR TION.' ;.'•, tWOTR'S TSLBdBAMS.) (Beceived June 21st, 8.55 p.m.) BERLIN, June 21. 'Hb official figures of tne referendum WW!— lot confiscation .. 14,889,703 Agatort .. 542^11 POSIIION EXPLAINED. * SfflPftß CENT. DO NOT VOTE. .'Qtobinl June 21st, 9.40 pan,). BERLIN, Jnne 21. \lllwl M,<foo,ooo votes.were neees- , wf,to tarry the referendum in favour » tflfotoan'scation of the ex-ruler'q proy#! #snottt eoapensation, whereas it '• i «jp^ ted tllßt %|roposal was, therefore, defeated. ypflve per cent, of the electorate fSafcysi 30 per eent. abstained from Wmg,.ana the remaining five per cent. njj&dtoer 10, or invalidly. JWltyAatf bi the electorate of Ber- , ftVMfti for confiscation, and a similar in other large citifes, include 'su .^ e 6ounii y districts/ where ' j^W" 181 "* 8 hold Bwa y> tte populace - HJM'.tae Nationalist leaders' gam* P».fc abstain from voting. 'fob' noteworthy that hot a single . IJPfjjlMmfcer entered a booth. the excitement ea- ■| K?sMf *h*re were no serious disminor olaahesl in Beramong email factions. ' J? K ■ »li nil 11 .■'.'"•'

[wm MONARCHIST SCHEMES. ■-' « ("ran mas.") . £^ v *<* June 2lsti m 55 p.m.) '%!** IOKdDON, June M. jjgfcfttb torrespdndeat of."Tha that there were no dishM^t McM *° u takes two ** maie »Wn«|tftd only one aide appeared in SP-*t the booths, the opponents > WfoJtf»tion realising that abstention .BgM»»ve*a«-.wt4'. Jp*ti»less, beneath the surface fflj.' Tke campaign was so bitter f* w ', it -bordered qn childishness. *W» showed the slightest real* \s the most extravaB¥fleta and caricatures ivhich were lorry loads of police |lp* (jofflnwniat procession, the of which was a man caricaturing the ex-Kaiser ■ *^^**^ 11 enilia ß *°" H wi * h crown, ''ffiSL B M 5* exaggerated moustache) 'HP***** o crowds with ribald ffl^ I** 1 ** * Basque o* ■&* «• pffj'tortter bombast. S&w'tfito hand, the Monarchists last-minute leaflets "o'Wportsd to emanite from the "wisV*' ey wwe miiei *° ie ' P""wuno3t virulent Bed pamphlets as abandoned cr'eama property ought to be eon' *W adding the popular war'lk't 1 * * ena y for the p™ o6B *" finishing, "Therefore sjgjfW dSlnfle the ignorant into votwere supporting it. also announced that B must not vote, many employees of la|pP« lUtnft who feafed that if the polls it would be KjSf *V *oted for confiscation, alwas supposed.to be BEPOETS. 1I!%II» IWM " Srm " sebvic3! -> KgllisNtee reports indicate that the HpOrg?* proposals are not obtaining Bf||ji|*j? ar 3 r support to carry the