BERLIN ELECTIONS
NOTABLE COMMUNIST GAINS. PEOPLE’S PARTY LOSES GROUND. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, October 26. The elections for the B lin Municipal Council, in which 1.750,00) persons, or 60 per cent of the electorate, voted, resulted in a victory for the Socialists and the Communists, who together polled nearly 1,000,000 votes against 750,000 for the other parties. The council hitherto has had a small bourgeois majority, comprising all parties except the Socialists and Communists. The Communists doubled their poll compared with the last elections in 1921. The Socialists and German Nationalists generally maintained their positions, but the People’s Party lost heavily. There were the customary clashes between the rival factions in the streets, with the result that many people were slightly injured, and a number of arrests were made. —Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19622, 28 October 1925, Page 7
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130BERLIN ELECTIONS Otago Daily Times, Issue 19622, 28 October 1925, Page 7
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