GERMAN ELECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 18812, 10 December 1924, Page 5

GERMAN ELECTIONS

PLETHORA OF PARTIES, NONE CONTROLS POSITION. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, December 8. The ' Daily Telegraph’s ’ Berlin correspondent says; “Tho polling leaves the Reichstag situation almost as ambiguous as it was before tho dissolution. Apparentiv a permanent Government majority is impossible without a coalition, of Parties, which are as little qualified to he down together as the lion and the lamb. All hopes of reviving the old Wirth coalition of the Centre Party, Democrats, and Socialists have 'pie presenu Cabinet cannot continue, as it is now more in a minority than before the elections. Dr Marx (tho Chancellor) favors a greater coalition of the People’s Party plus the Wirthit.es, but this has always hitherto been impossible, as the People s Party fundamentally represents capital, while the Socialists represent Labor. Both sides claim a victory, but probab y the Communists alone are really pleased. Their chief desire is to see confusion and uncertainty, and this is likely to he even more marked in the* now Reichstag than in tho old, for tho sobering influence of the Dawes Report is no longer an issue. There will be endless Cabinet crises, beginning with one of exceptional severity over the formation of a Government. A. and N.Z. Cable. GOVERNMENT TO CARRY ON IN MEANTIME. BERLIN, December 8. Marshal von Ludendorff has been reelected to the Reichstag. No party has a clear majority in the new Reichstag, and consequently the existing Government will carry on until the meeting of Parliament in January. Reuter. WAR “FANATICS.” GERMAN BLUSTERING DEPRECATED. LONDON, November 24. Dr Marx, the German Chancellor, in a speech at Cologne, asserted Germany’s determination to follow the path of peace. He described as “ most regrettable ” the recent statement in ‘ The Times ’ that though in the main tho material disarmament of Germany was satisfactory, there existed a war party, which was preparing tho German people for tho next war. , Dr Marx said there were not enough senseless people of that kind in Germa.ny to ho called a party, but this showed tho reputation Germany was given as tho result of the blustering of fanatics. THE POSITION SUMMARISED. LONDON, December 9. (Received December 10, at 9 a.m.)^ Tho Berlin correspondent of ‘ The Times,’ says : “ The result of tho elections offers two inspects which_ be considered separately. The rival flags under which it was fought were aymbolsone for and the other against the Republic. The figures show that there is a majority in the country for a republic, but at‘the same time that heavy forces are arrayed against it. The other issue is the policy of the late Government, particularly its foreign policy of fulfilment under the Dawes Report. Hew it must be said that there is a more decisive majority in its favor. On the whole, therefore, the election must be taken as a message of _ peace ( with a strong dissentient minority.”—‘ The Times.