GETTING EXCITING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 April 1925, Page 9

GETTING EXCITING.

GERMAN ELECTION. CLOSE -VOTING~ANTICIPATED. by cable-press association—copyright. BERLIN', April 24. With the approach of the Presidential .election on Sunday the campaign is reaching its height. The Republicart papers are overflowing with telegrams" from New York emphasising .the disastrous effects of Marshal vdh Hindenbnrg’s candidature on the financial relations between American banking circ'es and Germany. The Monarchist press retorts with immense headlines across "the page, underlined with red ink, 'saying: “American finance is on the side of Hindenburg.” Hindenburg’s supporters are making a bold bid for women’s votes. A prominent ’ writer is arguing that Dr. Marx Will get Germany into" tne League of Nations and involve Germany in League wars. Reiehsbloc writers arid speakers also declare that-Dr.-Marx also represents only par%_" -feeling and class warfare, whereas Rinden-bu7-g is proclaimed as a man whom the whole nation trusts. The Republicans retort that Hmden-> burg is a militarist, with no knowledge of politics or statesmanship, and would be a mere poppet in the hands of those aiming at the restoration of the Holienzoller.ns. -His election would be a set-back to Germany in the affairs of the world. Extraordinary virulence- marked the campaign". Which is likely to produce very close voting at the po'J. The campaign concluded with broadcasted speeches .hv-Dr. Marx ancl Marshal yon Hiuderibuig. The former emphasised the need for democracy and the- .peaceful development of Europe. The "marshal,.who has taken little personal part in the campaign, strongly appealed to nationalist sentiment. He promised to recognise" that Germany dost the war and must bear the consequences of it, but the people must not remain slaves for gyer. The Monarchist and Republican flags were equally ..evident in Berlin. Fifty excited meetings were held in ,i;he capital yesterday. .Ebert, sen of the exPresid,ent," had the temerity to ca|l out “lidrig dive the Republic!” at a Monarchist meeting, and was promptly arrested hv the" police, who inflicted the usual truncheoning before releasing him. ' / LONDON. April 25. Marshal von Hindenburg’s speech wiis broadcasted in London through the .enterprise of the Daily Express. The Berlin .correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says no politica! vote" ifi Germany is more, difficult to predict than that to.be taken to-morrow. The striiggle .is between Dr. Marx, a man with a record, and Marshal von .Hindenburg, an idol with a legend. If the instincts of the party “bosses” are true, the main issue of the election is the approval of the outside world. Never before have views of the foreign press been ,so voluminoiis'.v quoted. The vital importance of the election may he judged by the fact, that the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the Arrnv arid the Navy, and in the opinion of the foremost lawyers could under clause 48 of the constitution destroy the present structure of Germany and restore the ex-Kaiser without trespassing beyond iiis legal rights.