GERMAN ELECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 21170, 2 August 1932, Page 9

GERMAN ELECTIONS

RESULTS OF THE POLLING NO DEFINITE OUTCOME Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BKRLIN, August 1. Well-informed people believe that Herr Hitler’s compromising connection with General Von Schleicher checked his triumphant career. The relative success of tho Communists was a surprise. They apparently won over many Socialists owing

DR BRUENING, Whose Centre Party may hold the balance in the new Reichstag.

to the workers’ disappointment at the mild behaviour of the displaced Prussian members of the Cabinet. Dr Bruening was returned for Dusseldorf, where the Socialists secured

one seat, the Nazis four, the Communists three, and the Centre six.

Herr Hitler announced that he would refuse to join any coalition Government. He decreed a political truce till August 10, and no political meetings of any kind will bo allowed. COUNTING PRACTICALLY FINISHED NAZIS HEAD LIST. BERLIN, August 1. Practically all the counting of votes was finished at midnight, and the results ffre as follow:

A total of 012,974 votes went to freak parties or were invalid. Herr Loebl, Herr Hugenberg, and Herr Thaelmann were rejected.

CASE OF DEADLOCK NOTABLE COMMUNIST GAINS. LONDON, August 1. The Berlin correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says: “A comparison of the average results of the State election shows that the result has brought the Communists notable gains and almost stopped the Nazi advance. The Communists have more than recouped their total losses of 1930 and at the State elections. The Nazis, who advanced by leaps and bounds from 18.3 per cent, of the total votes in 1930 to 35.7 in the State elections, have gained only 2 per cent. Further, the combined Right parties have obtained only 45 per cent., compared with 48 in the Prussian elections. Unless the Government is able to win the cooperation, or at least the toleration, of the Centre Parly and the Bavarian People’s Party, or the Communists are suppressed, ■ the same deadlock will bo reached as in the Prussian Diet.” FINAL STATE OF PARTIES BERLIN, August 1. (Received August 2, at 10 a.m.) Ti tc state of the parties is: Nazis 230 Socialists 133 Communists 89 Centre 76 Nationalists 37 Bavarian People's 22 German Nationalists, People’s ■Party, and other small groups 15 Christian Socialists 4 State Party 4 IVasams’ Party 2 Farmers’ League 2

NAZIS INFURIATED OUTRAGES AT KONIGSBURG. BERLIN, August 1. (Received August 2, at 10 a.m.) Infuriated by the election results, gangs of Nazis at Ivonigsbcrg wreaked vengeance on Communists and Socialists in a series of murderous outrages. The recently-deposed Governor, Herr Rahrfcld, was called to the door and shot in both arms. Two Socialist journalists were similarly wounded. Two Communists were shot dead in the street. Incendiary bombs were thrown at the offices of two Socialist newspapers claiming an amazing victory. THE NAZI LEADER MANIFESTO BY HITLER. * BERLIN, August 1. (Received August 2, at 10 a.m.) Herr Hitler, in a manifesto, says the Nazis have become the strongest party in the Reichstag, and must continue to fight for Germany’s freedom. AN UNMANAGEABLE REICHSTAG NEWSPAPER COMMENT. BERLIN, August 1. (Received August 2, at 12.5 p.m.) The newspapers consider that the new Reichstag will bo as unmanageable as the old and will enjoy purely theoretical power, while the Government and the lleichsjvehr will continue the dictatorship. General Schleicher does not .display the least disposition to hand over the reins of power to any combination of parties. The Hitlerites propound the sensational suggestion that the Communist Party should be suppressed by invalidating the claim of eighty-nine Communist deputies fo seats in the Reichstag; thus the right wing of the parties would be dominated by 230 Nazis and would be assured of an absolute majority. Apart from Konigsberg, there were numerous bomb outrages against buildings in Schleswig and Holstein belonging to Communists. The buildings were damaged, though they were unoccupied. However, thirty-five to forty deaths elsewhere in Germany are traceable to faction fights following the announcement of the election results. A HIGH-HANDED PROPOSAL The Berlin correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ wrote on June 21;—“ Much is being heard of Nationalist proposals for tho suppression of the Communist Party after the coming election. With the example of Bismarck’s attempt to suppress the Socialists before it, any German Government may be expected to think long before taking such a step. The attraction of the idea for its sponsors evidently is that the disappearance of the Communists would completely alter parliamentary proportions in their favour; for it would give the majority in almost every State Parliament, and probably in the new Reichstag, to the Nazis alone or to the Nazis and Nationalists together.”

Nazis ... ... Votes. Scats. 13,440,750 226 Socialists 7,752,100 128 Communists 5,223,000 87 Centre Party 4,535,200 76 Nationalists 2,143,100 36 Bavarian People’s Party 1,079,800 18 German People’s Party 428,700 7 Christian Socialists 355,500 G State Party 372,200 147,400 6 Economic Party 2