GERMAN ELECTION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17408, 10 December 1924, Page 11

GERMAN ELECTION.

COALITION NECESSARY. LUDENDORFF RETURNED. By T? 1* graph Prrs* Association Copyright •tenter ? TeVffPsms. BKRI-IN. Decenilvr 8. General Ludendorff has been reflected to the Reichstag. No party lias a Hear majority in the n**\ Reichstag. consequently the existing Government will carry on until the meeting of Parliament, in January. ELECTION SETTLES NOTHING. Australian and N.Z. Cabl* Association. ! OX IX)X. December «. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says: "The polling leaves the Reichstag situation, almost as ambiguous as before the dissolution. Apparently a permanent Government majority is impossible without a coalition of parties. which .ire as little qualified to lie down together as the lion and the lamb. All hopes of reviving the old W'irtli coalition of the Centre. Democrats and Socialists have disappeared, and the present Cabinet cannot continue as it now is more in a minority than before the election. “Dr Marx favours a greater coalition of the People’s Party, plus the TVirthites, but this always, hitherto, has been impossible as the People's Party fundamentally represents capital. while the Socialists represent Cabo u r. “Rolh sides claim a victory, but prohahlv the Communists alone are really pleased. Their rhief desire is to s*e confusion and uncertainty, and this is likely to be even more marked in the new Reichstag than in the old, for the sobering influence of the Dawes Report is no longer an issue. There will be endless Cabinet crises beginning with one of exceptional severity over the formation of the Government.”