NAZIS JUST FAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12254, 9 April 1935, Page 5

NAZIS JUST FAIL

DA-NiZTG ELECTION GERMAN'S SHORT OF 1 TWOTHIRDS MAJORITY PRESENT POSITION CANNOT BE ALTERED LEAGUE OFFICIAL’S, TASK MAY BE! MORE DIFFICULT (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) BERLIN, April 7. Nearly a quarter of a million men and women, representing 95 per cent, of the electorate, voted at the Danzig election. The electors formed queues early in the morning before the ISB polling booths opened.' Seventy per cent, of the electors voted before 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The poll dosed at 6 o’clock. 1

There were no incidents except for the pulling down of a. few flags and the breaking 1 of a. window or two. Vigorous propaganda was disseminated from motor cars and there were numerous partisan processions in which the Nazi color-, and slogans predominated. The election resulted in a Nazi majority, as was to bo expected in a State where 97 per cent, of the community are Germans and only .‘3 per cent. Poles. Provisional figures of the election are: Nazis, 148,272 (which is G 0.24 of the electorate. Socialists, 30,779. Catholic Centre, 32,956. German Nationalists, 10.601. Communists, 8268. Although the Nazis' vote apparently just fads to achieve the two-thirds majority necesoary to alter the present position, the big majority will make the League High Commissioner's task more difficult. Apart from minor street brawls, the only serious incidents were the assaulting of two Polish diplomatic officials. The Polish Government protested and the police interrogated the attackers, who were releasee. NAZIS WIN 44 SEATS. WANT 48 TO REVISE CONSTITUTION. POLISH MINISTER ALLEGES TERRORISM. (U P.A. bv Elec. Tel. Oopyright) (Received April 8, 8-25 p.m.) WARSAW, April 8. The Nazis will have about fortyfour seats in the Danzig Senate, instead of forty-one at the dissolution, but they wanted forty-eight seats to enable the revision of the constitution. Money was lavished on propaganda, so Dr. Goebbels and General Goering, the Nazi leaders, are frankly disappointed. Herr Papee, the Polish Minister at Danzig, has lodged a strong protest, alleging terrorism during the election, particularly in the case of two members of the Legation, who were brutally manhandled by uniformed Nazis in the main street of Danzig. The Minister adds that eight thousand Danzigers now domiciled elsewhere returned to vote, some recording their votes two or three times. HALF A VICTORY. FRENCH FEARS. O (U.P.A. hv EK<- Tel. (Received April 8, 11 p.m.) DANZIG, April S. The official result of the election is: Nazis ... ... 44 Socialists 12 Centre Party ... 9 Communists ... ~- Gorman Nationals 3 Polish Party ... 2 Paris newspapers are uneasy about the result. The Petit Parisien mentions fears that Nazi disappointment may lead them to attempt a coup d’ etat. The Petit Journal says: “It is half a. victory, hut a. disquiotoning one, for it will authorise Berlin to continue the pressure’’