GERMAN SOCIALISTS MAKE BIG ADVANCE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 May 1928, Page 6

GERMAN SOCIALISTS MAKE BIG ADVANCE.

Received Monday, 7.30 p.m. BERLIN, May 20. An unofficial forecast of the con slitutiou of the Reichstag gives— Socialists 160 Nationalists 70 Centre .. 69 Communists 58 People’s Party 54 Democrats 25 Economic Party 23 Fascists ~ ~ .. 16 Bavarian People’s Party 19 Other Parties 6 The Nationalists lost heavily in the big cities, the Socialists and Communists gaining about 15 per cent, compared with last elections at the expense, of the Nationalists. The German People's Party arc also losing scats to the Socialists and Communists. Potsdam Nationalist. It is estimated that twenty per cent, voted in Berlin. As there was heavy polling elsewhere returns cannnot be estimated till to-morrow.

Earliest indications arc that the Socialists and Communists have strengthened their hold in Berlin proper. Potsdam is firmly Nationalist. A hundred arrests have been made. There was a sensation at Potsdam. The ex-Kaiser’s fourth son on appearing on the platform to apeak on behalf of the Labbur Party assured the audience of his own democratic principles. He added that the dynasty to which he belonged made a fatal mistake in holding aloof from the masses. Had his father not committed such a blun der he might still be ruling. A Rising Generation. It is interesting, to note that two million ‘ now voters have sprung up since the 1924 elections with no knowledge of pre-war Germany and unable to contrast Republican with Monarchial condition^.