THE GERMAN ELECTIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13812, 28 January 1907, Page 5

THE GERMAN ELECTIONS

INTENSE EXCITEMENT.

GREAT OUTBURSTS OF LOYALTY.

INDICATIONS OF A SOCIALIST

BIiVEUSK

Pres» A.«sociilion-By 'Mep-aph-CopyriuM.

BERLIN, January 25.

The German elections have commenced amid intense excitement. A record poll is expected, since the cold is decreasing.

January 26.

(Received Jan. 27, at 4.51 p.m.)

The results of the elections so far indicate a severe Socialist rovcise.

Tho announcement iu l!erlii\ sit midnight of tho first result occasioned a tremendous outburst of loyalty.

The Kaiser. was uproariously cheered, though, tho police prevented a demonstration to the Koval Palace.

The crowds, however, insisted on visiting the residence of Prince Von liuolows (the Imperial Chancellor). }lo assured them that tho Government was confident that the electors would overthrow all who barred the nation's welfare and greatness. At noon on Saturday the results of 281 out of 397 elections were known, 164 being final and 127 requiring second ballols. The Socialists were badly defeated at Saxony, Leipzig, and Madge'lnirg.

Tho Reichstag was dissolved by fli e Kaiser because it had declined io voto £1,161,000 for the purpose of sending more men out to German South Africa to quell the Hottentot rebellion. Tho Kaiser stigmatised tho Jtoiclistng's decision as a. "Little Germany" policy, and h<> appealed to tho people of the Fatherland to send him back a Parliament in which the "Lilllo Gorman" element would be overpowered. This clement—composed of Clericals, •Socialists, and Poles—has lost faith in tho success of German oversea policy, although, as tho Imperial Chancellor pointed out in his final appeal to tho deputies, England! and Holland in their time have grappled* with , greater difficulties than those which confront tho Fatherland, and havo overcome them, Tho voice. o£ the Kaiser is plainly heard in nn article which appears in a special edition of tho semi-official Norddeutscliß Allgemoino Zoitung, which says:—"For the Federal Governments and lor the Imperial Chancellor there is no bargaining and no compromiso in this question. In spite of the Chancellor's earnest words, ' If you desire if, you now havo tho crisis,' tho Centra and Social Democratic parties, who constitute the existing, majority in the Reichstag, adhered to their mean-spirited and obstinate refusal in a matter which is near lo the heart and nffects the honour of the Herman people. Tho nation must now decido whether it will lolorato such a representation of its interests and its opinions."