BERLIN ELECTIONS
BIG VOTE FOR COMMUNISTS' CLASHES BETWEEN FACTIONS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received October 27, 12.25 p.m. BERLIN, Oct. 26. The elections for the Berlin Municipal Council, in which 1,750,000, or 60 per cent, of tho electors, voted, resulted in a victory for tho Socialists and Communists, who together polled nearly 1,000,000 against 750,000 for the other parties. The Councjl hitherto had a small bourgeois mn.jority, comprising all parties except the Socialists and Communists. The Communists doubled their poll compared with the last elections m 1921. The Socialists and German Nationalists generally/ maintained their positions, but tho People’s Party x lost heavily.
There were the customary clashes between the rival factions in the streets with the result that many were slightly injured and a number of arrests were made.—Reuter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 277, 27 October 1925, Page 7
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