"POTSD-!" SAYS THE KAISER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12707, 9 March 1912, Page 5 (Supplement)

"POTSD-!" SAYS THE KAISER

HIS HOME SEAT UAPTUBi-H) BY •SOCIALISTS, MERLIN, JanuaVv 25. The Social iste have aaptmeJ tho Kaiser Division of Potsdnm. H:-rr Liebknecht, the^ Anti- Militarist, lms beaten tlio Free Conservative burgomaster of the town to which the Kaiser retreated from Berlin when the parliamentary elections began. . His Majesty wished to avoid the demonstrations which would have taken place before tho Palace in Berlin if a Wocjalist were returned for the first d iv»sjon. of th,e capital, th© only division which W93 not- li#Jd by the so ha went away to Potsdar.i. As it happened, the Radical member fo» the first division retained his seat by i'\\-j votes over his Socialist rival. The victory at Potsdam is necessarily a serious blow at the Government's prestige. It carries with it an important moral effect, and is, of cc-urse, a grievous disappointment to tho Kaiser, j Worse than this, however, is the fact that the Socialists now dominate the I Reichstag. There were thirty-three second ballots to-day, and thpso complete tho new Heicl)§tag. Tlie Socialises gained nine more seats and rjpw jjumber 110 members in the newPaiiiamlytit. In tho last Reichstag they held oily fiftythree seats. With tho support of the re A of the Opposition parties,, i,ha SpciaMe^s now command a inajprity over the l^pman Catholics and Conservatives. T hey haye succeeded at last jn brpnki"ff thp BlueBJacjk b}pck. 9