RIVAL FLAGS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1924, Page 7

RIVAL FLAGS

ASPECTS OF GERMAN-ELECTIONS. MAJORITY FOR REPUBLIC. A MESSAGE OF PEACE,

[The Times’ Berlin correspond-" ent’s comment on the results of the German elections is encouragi: . . ing. He refers to the majority-, v polled in favour of the Republic a? a “message of peace,” but points out that there are heavy forces’ . opposing the Republic. If his views are correct, the outlook has v< been improved by , the election, which has decidedly darkened the prospects of the Monarchist elements regaining their power.] «Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Dec. 10. 9 a.m.’ LONDON, Dec. '9. The Times’ Berlin; correspondent says that the result of. the elections offers two aspects which must he considered separately. The rival flags under which it was fought were‘symbols, one for and the other against the republic. The figures show that- there is va: majority in the country for the republic, but j at the same time, that heavy forces are arraigned against it. xi '• The other issue is policy of the late Government, particularly its foreign policy of fulfilment under the Dawes report. Here : it must be 'said that there is a - more decisive majority in its favour. On the whole, -.therefore, the election must be taken as . a message of peace, with a strong dis- , sentient minority;—Times. - •= SITUATION AMBIGUOUS. GOVERNMENT WILL GARRY ON. 3Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Dec. 8. No party will have ’a olettr majority -,'f i n the Reichstag as a result •of the elections, according to advice.,, from Berlin, Consequently , the existing Government will carry on’until Parliament meets in Januaryi ' r •' -General Ludendorff was re-elected. . " The Berlin correspondent... 0f... the Daily Telegraph, says the polling'leaves the situation in the Reichstag-almost .a s ambiguous as before the ; dissolu- -• tion. Apparently . a perm anent Government majority is impossible . .without a coalition of parties, which are as little qualified to lie down together as the lion and the lamb/: AIL hopes of reviving the old Wirth coalition of Centre Democrats and ■ Socialists have disappeared. The present Cabinet cannot continue, ’ as; it;is; now more in a minority than before " the election. Dr. Marx (the Chancellor) favours a greater coalitioiV of the People’s Party, plus the Wirthites, but this was, always hitherto im-* possible, as the People’s Party fundamentally represent capital, while the Socialists represent labour. . Both sides claim a victory. ; Probably the Communists, -alone are really pleased. Their chief desire ’is *■?. se . e confusion and iineertahityV and this is likely to he even more marked in the new Reichstag than in the old, for the sobering influence of the Dawes report is 116 longer, an. issue,. TheVe will be endless 'Cabinet* eriseJh- v beginning with, one; of exceptional severity over ..the formation--of a Government. . -