FIFTH ELECTION

Northern Advocate, 7 November 1932, Page 5

FIFTH ELECTION

I WITHIN A YEAR GERMAN POLL YESTERDAY NAZIS DECLINE EXPECTED. GOVERNMENT STANDS APART. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN, November (5. PolUng began this morning for the fifth election within a year. A far smaller poll is expected than that of two months ago. The opinion is still held that the Hitlerites (Nazis) will lose seats —■ some say many. A curious feature is that electors cannot vote for or against the Government, because there are no Government candidates. The Government stands quite aloof. It has left io doubt of its intention to remain in power, whatever the result of the election. Experienced politicians think that the Chancellor, Herr von Papcn, will soon bo replaced by some other member of the ruling clique, but no one expects a modification in the Government’s character or policy. Herr von Papen, in the final broadcast speech of his campaign, declared that, the strikes which Nazis and armed Communists were provoking in order to disturb the economic peace of the country constituted a crime against the whole nation. The leader of the Nazis, Herr Hitler, had disappointed the hopes of those who had expected him to combat Marxism and assist in the rebuilding of Germany.

ANOTHER IMPASSE. PROCEDURE FUTILE. NAZIS HEAD EARLY LIST. A SIGNIFICANT SPEECH. (Received 1. p.m.) BERLIN, November 0. 1 The election has produced a further deadlock. It is obvious that Herr von Papen’s Cabinet will face a large and ■hostile opposition. In nine million votes counted by eleven o’clock tonight the result was; Nazis ~ . lt>7 ■ Socialists Communists S2 , Centre Party o 9 German Nationals 30 Bavarian Peoples ...... It Germa.n Peoples 0 A fusillade of stones stopped tramcars in the evening. Nino passengers were injured by splintered glass. The police on three occasions Jlred on the strikers and made 32-arrests. As Herr von Papon’s continuance in office is a foregone conclusion, despite the elections, considerable attention has boon attracted by a speech of the Chairman of the Catholic Centro Party, Professor Ivans, who recalled the ostentatious optimism till the end of ID IS. He asked if the present masters did not shrink the day when their shallow, haphazard optimism wmuld culminate in bankruptcy in its dimensions. “We are -nearer a grave struggle than most people think. We now are as wo were in wartime. May tho fate of those who then declined to see be averted by those who are now wilfully blind. Wo will not become revolutionaries, but legal, passive and active resistance ’is harder to overcome than barricades.’’