GERMAN ELECTIONS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1586, 11 June 1920, Page 5

GERMAN ELECTIONS.

GOVERNMENT WIPED OUT.

[By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Thursday, 7.35 p.m.) BERLIN, June 9. The final election figures show the position of the parties: Centre Party, 67; Majority Socialists, 110; Democrats, 46; giving- the Coalition 223 seats'out of 460. The largest of the other parties are the Nationalists, 65; Popular Party, 61, and Independent Socialists, 80. The Majority Socialists liave lost 35 seats, the Democrats 30, the Centre Party 4. The independent .Socialists have gained 58, German People's Party 39. German Nationalists Thus, the Coalition, which numbered 326 in the old assembly, lias now only 222, while the Opposition, which formerly numbered S<3, is mow 235. "FILL OE MENACE." PARIS, June 9. "Le Matin's" Berlin correspondent says it is expected that Mueller will form a Ministry. He will first appeal for the support of the Independents. If thev refuse, he will seek to secure the Popular Party's support. The correspondent adds that the outlook is full of menace for Germany, ana carried more difficulties for the Allies. The formation of a Government from the Moderate parties is not practicable. , ■' '•Le Journal" questions whether, apart from other obstacles, the situation created by the election will allow of the Sana Conference being held on the date fixed.

GERMANY'S SAVIOUR!

LONDON, June 9

The "Dailv Chronicle's" Berlin correspondent .says that a romantic feature of the elections is the growth of the so-called Popular Party, which is identical with the old National Liberals, which has bee,n raised and financed by Hugo Stinner, who now controls 62 newspapers. He is far and awav the wealthiest and most powerful German, and probably is worth a thousand million marks. He made enormous fortunes out of war contracts, and has been spending liberally to build up a new party on the ruins of the National Liberals, who collapsed with the monarchy. His name now is in everybody's mouth. Some think he is the great man whom Germany is seeking as a saviour of the country. The Berlin newspaper "Preiheit" states that the German workers are bent on following a clear Socialistic policy, and never again will they be used as a tool by the bourgeois parties.