THE GERMAN ELECTIONS.
SOCIALIST SUCCESSES.
Press Association. Electric Telegraph Copyright.
Berlin, Juno 18. The chief issue of the German elec tions is the future customs policy.
Leaders of the iron, electric, cotton, and wool industries, hoping to delay the realisation of Mr Chamberlain's policy, are striving to return nonprotectionist candidates.
There wiJl be 180 second ballots, compared with 98 in the elections of 1898.
Social Democrats secure 55 seats at the first ballots, compared with 32 in 1898. This success is at the expense of the Radicals, and is attributed to the tariff issue and the Kaiser's interference with parties. The Freisinnigo, or Badical Party, is almost annihilated.
Saxony voted solidly " red," which is attributed to the effects oi' the Royal scandal.
The Socialist vote at Essen numbered 22,000,- compared with U4O last election ; Duisburg 25,000, compared with 7900; Bochura 40,000, compared with 22 000 ; Berlin 100,000 above the vote of' 1898; Saxony 100,000 above all other parties combined. Many thousand voters who are not Socialists supported the Socialists, as representing the Empire's one effective party of opposition,
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 142, 20 June 1903, Page 4
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