POLITICS IN GERMANY.
EBEPvT'S SIGNIFICANT REMARKS.
(Australian and N,2. Cable. Association) COPENHAGEN, Feb. 12.
In the Presidential election, ... Herr Ebert secured 2Sff,rVotes, and Herr Scheidemann and Herr E'rzberger one each, and Count Posadowski, Conservative, forty-nine. - '. The new German Government consists of 1 seven Majority Socialists, three Democrats,. and four Centre Party. ■ .*T|ie Government . ia introducing a Conscription Bill, fqr short service based on the Swiss system. . •
.•-;•■ LONDON, Feb. 12. "A German wireless, states that Herr Ebert, in his Presidential address, said : "We will fight all attempts to establish dominion by violence or by internatonal will over our ..internal affairs. , We.intend to base ; our,;policy. at rhome and abroad on the freely-exercised right of self-determination. We cannot, tolerate our brothers, being robbed of their freedom of choice. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14837, 14 February 1919, Page 5
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