GERMAN PRESIDENCY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9997, 28 April 1925, Page 5

GERMAN PRESIDENCY

RESTORATION OF MONARCHY ONLY MATTER OF TIME.

PENDULUM SAYINGS BACK IN LAST FOUR YEARS.

TRADITION AND NATIONALIST CUNNING. (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.—COFYRICEI' (SYDNEY SUN CABLE; LONDON, April 20. “The restoration of the monarchy in Germany is only a question of time,” writes General Morgan in ait article in the Weekly Dispatch. General Morgan was a member of the Allied Alission of Military Control in Germany from 1919 to 1923. He says everything that has happened in Germany in the past five years points in this direction. “The change of the public temper in Germany respecting the monarchy is astonishing. When I first went to Germany in 1919 the monarchy seemed gone for ever—none so poor a.s to do it reverence. Within, twenty-four hours twenty-two thrones and sceptres tumbled in the dust. Never was the Republican movement more complete; never was a dynastic capitulation more abject. Mings, grand dukes, dukes, and serene highnesses bolted for cover like rabbits. They stole down the back stairs of palaces at nighty and vanished across the frontier. Xo voice was raised in favor of these vanishing pomps, once so dear to the German. No hand was lifted to prop its fallen thrones. “How has the prestige of the Hohenzollerns been revived ? The answer is tradition, aided by the Nationalist party’s cunning policy. The Hohenzollern tradition is far stronger than any individual member of the dynasty. _ The Germans forget the exKaiser’s disastrous record. They remember Frederick the Great. Soon after the Kaiser’s debacle the Nationalists used every propagandist method —films, plays, posters, brochures, to quicken the dormant memories of the king who made Prussia great. The cult of Frederick grew up. The Nationalists’ most effective electioneering poster was a portrait of Frederick asking: AATmt has become of my Prussia? _ If Hindenburg is elected restoration of tiie monarchy will certainly follow; if defeated, which is probable, the Nationalists will have nailed their colors to the mast. The defeat of the Republicans in this momentous election will mean irretrievable defeat. To the Afonarchists defeat will be only a check.” HINDEXBUP. G ELECTED. UNPRECEDENTED EXCITEMENT. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Received April 27, 9.19 p.m.) BERLIN, April 2-3. Hindenburg has been elected. Public tension is apparently increasing. As the results appear a strong police patrol is posted everywhere. The first tiiree Berlin stations gave Alarx a fifty per cent, majority, but later eight combined Berlin districts, showed Hindenburg elected. The voting showed that Hiudenburg led in Pomerania. East Prussia, and Bavaria. Alarx led in Berlin, the Rhineland and the Ruhr. Official provisional figures show 5G.316.CQ0 votes —Hindenburg 14.639.003 : Alarx 13,753.000 ; and Thalemann 1,932,000. Two were killed and others injured hr election riots near Karlsrhue. A Nation.-!list crowd tried to storm the Town H",U at Katibor, Silesia, mad cAbided with the police. Alany arrests were made. There was unprecedented excitement at Cologne, where there was heaw polling and the Hmdenburgites were most active. There was a great turnover in the Rhineland, which is the stronghold of Alarx. CHEERS FOR THE “IDOL.” REA lAR K ABLE DEMONSTRATIONS. (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE aSSN'A (Received Anril 27. II p.m.) BERLIN. April 26. The turnover of only six per cent, o: the votes compared with the first ballot was required to give Hindenburg a victory. Excited 1 crowds massed at hundreds ef spots in the city td hear the results. The polling closed at six and the first results were known at eiglit._ There vans immense cheering when the first figures published showed that Hindenburg was the victor in the Potsdam district, men and women waving old Alonarchist- colors and singing • ‘Deutschland L her Alles bareheaded, despite the falling rain. There were further cheers when later figures disclosed further gains for Hindenburg even in the working districts of Berlin. Any successes achieved by AFarx were ~ received with hooting, c-atcalls and groans. ASTONISHAIENT IX LONDON. . (REUTER’S TELEGRAM.) (Received An r, ’l 27. 11.50 pml LONDON, April 27. Though most papers managed to get the announcement of Hindenburg’s election into the “stop press’*" there has not vet been headlines expressing astonishment with the result. After the initial result to hand it- was rccogu'sed that the many defections from the Democrats would prove determining factors in ITnid’enburg's election.