GERMAN SOCIALISTS.
THEIR NUMERICAL STRENGTH. IMPRISONMENTS DURING A YEAR. CONTRIBUTIONS TO PARTY FUNDS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. {Received August 13, 9.5 a.m.) BERLIN, '13th August. Th& German Socialist Party has a membership of 722,830, of which number 90,000 were recruited during the year, including 20,000 women. Forty-threo thousand six hundred meetings were held, and twenty-three million pamphlets distribnted: The terms of imprisonment served by members during the year aggregated thirty-seven years, and fines paid totalled £1500 sterling. Contributions by members to the party funds sometimes reached £10,000, monthly. Lin Gei'many, 1909 was a year of astonishing Socialist success, simultaneously with a marked tendency • towards a less doctrinaire or "revolutionist" policy. The male membership rose during the year ended August from 557,878 to 571,050, .while the women increased from 29,488 to 62,259.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1910, Page 5
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