DRESDEN ELECTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 299, 14 December 1918, Page 5

DRESDEN ELECTION

MINORITY SOCIALISTS ROUTED. REICHSTAG TO MEET NEXT WEEK(Australian and~N.Z. Cable Association) COPENHAGEN, Dec: 12. At the election of the Dresden. Soldiers' and Workmen's Council the Majority Socialists po tied 177,566 v otes, and the Minority Socialists 8440 ■The Taceb.att understands that the I Reichstag has been summoned' to meet next week in order to give the present Government a parliamentary basis. BOLSHEVISM IN BRUNSWICK. and N.Z. Cable Association AMSTERDAM, Dec. 12. The Bolshevists are in full power in the Duchy of Brunswi tk, whfere. the President of the republic is a hunchback dwarf, who was foiTnerlyr a tailor. His salary: is £2500, which he shall be paid in daily instalments. Ihe Minister of Education is a washer-wo-man.'Red Guards with their wives occupy the ducal palace. GERMAN WOMEN PACIFISTS NOW. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, Dec. 12. The .Daily Expo's. Berlin correspondent interviewed "Minna Cauer, the acknowledged leader of the German! women, who declared,: "We _are all uacifista .now. Twenty-one million women will be enfranchised in January, and they will be the greatest power to -prevent "further* wars.-' With tears streaming down her face 'she said: "Take this message to EngJTshwomen: We J'«med It take ten years to rebuild- the and perhaps it wnll only bo a little We «ha'l never be might} again. 75 • RUSSIAN DELEGATION PUT OFF. (Renter, via America.) CHRISTIANIA, Dec 12. j\dvi'?es from Berlin state that the Cabinet sent a wireless ™^ SS *° dele _ Tf!n=Kia askin"- her not to send a oe gation to Berlin for a confer c rice n?xt week, because of the present situation in Germany.