PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS

Inangahua Times, 26 April 1932, Page 3

PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS

A WIN FOE NAZIS BXTT COMMUNISTS HOLD BALANCE OF POWER Telegraph—Copyright.) (United Press Assn—By Electric BERLIN, April 24. Progress results of the Prussian! elections: I Government 58 seats, of which the I Socialists hold 32, the Centre 24 and the State Party 2. Opposition 68, including Nazis 54, Nationalists 10 and others 4; Communists 20. ELECTION -CLASHES SOME FATALITIES BERLIN, April 24. Two Nazis were killed in election lashes and one was shot in Berlin. (Another was stahhed at Hambourn, where Communists charged a Nazis procession wounding several distributors of leaflets and fatally injuring a storm troops leader. A SERIOUS OUTBREAK A serious outbreak occurred at Duisburg concert hall where a farmer was relating his experiences in Russia. Communists threw a hand grenade into the auditorium. It did not explode but subsequent lighting with chairs and various weapons resulted in thirty being injured,! ' a dozen seriously. PROPAGANDIST ATTACKED A pilot of a Nazi propaganda plane was forced to land at Dusseldorf. 1 Communists mobbed him and attempted to set fire to his plane, but the police rescued it. Frequent disturbances occurred in the Rhineland and Westphalia. Police, armed with carbines, are busy patrolling the cities throughout the country. Hundreds Of arrests were made. The latest progress returns of the elections are: Prussia Opposition 186 seats, including Nazis 149, Government 156, and Communists 52. The results of Wurtemburg and Anhalt elections show that the Nazis increased their vote but are not sufficiently strong to govern without support of the centre party. FINAL COUNT. BERLIN, April 25. A semi-official message states the final count is: Prussian Government .... . ... 162 Opposition 196, including 160 Nazis. Communists are holding the balance of power by 56. A feature of the Prussian election is swallowing op the Right Parties by the Nazis. This is illustrated in the final return for Opplen district, Silesia, the only one yet available. This shows that the Nazis increased their vote from 63,060 in 1930 to 212, 000 at the expense of the Nationalists. Other Right Parties are almost wiped out. Final elections results are likely to fulfil the predictions that the Nazis will displace the Socialists as the strongest party in the State, but will not achieve an absolute majority, Communists holding the balance of power.