GERMAN SOCIALISM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8999, 23 January 1906, Page 5

GERMAN SOCIALISM.

GREAT MEETINGS "IN BEPvLIN.

PASS OFF QUIETLY.

[press association.] (Received January 22, 10.5 p.m.) BERLIN, January 22.

Although Socialists' meetings have been prohibited in Hamburg, Leipeig, Dresden, and several other cities, the authorities permitted ninety-three meetings at Berlin, which wete attended by over 50.000

Resolutions were carried welcoming the revolutionary euccesees in Russia; sympathising with the victims of autocratic tyranny, protesting against the three claes Prussian electoral system ; demanding unxversa], equal and secret suffrage •, condemning the reactionary Russian Diet as * caricature of a- real representative assem bly.

Strong forces of cavalry, infantry, a*Ki artillery were held ready to support a thousand police, but snot the slightest disturbance took place, the unofficial workmen's police easily controlling their comrades^ who claim a triumph for the Socialist organisation.

THE SOCIALIST PARTY.

A MILLION AND THREE-QUARTERS DISFRANCHISED.

GOVERNING CLASSES ALARMED

(Received January 22, 11.17 p.m.) 1 BERLIN, January 22. Several of the Reichstag Deputies prj tested at the meetings against the injustice of the Prussian electoral schenv,

which, they hold, practically disfranchises a million and three-quarters of Social Democratic electors. Hew Bebel remarked that though th-s Socialists and Social Democrats had no occasion at present to transfer their agitation to the steete, the events m Russia must be regarded as disquieting for the governing classes. . The great social democratic demonstrations passed off quietly at FraJikfurt, Hanover, Kiel, Cologne, Preslau and other towns.

J. '-The best implement on -the farm" is . what a well-known Caivforbury farmer says about the BenicL-t Disc Plough. Agents* , Bennett and Sutton, Hawera.— Advt.

An Indiana man bet ten dollars that he could ride a fly-wheel in a sawmill, and as his widow paid the bet she remarked: "William was a kind husband, but he didn't know much, about flywheels."