GERMAN ELECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, 8 May 1924, Page 5

GERMAN ELECTIONS.

EXTREMISTS MAKE HEADWAY. INTERNATIONAL SITUATION EASED. London, May 7.—The German elections resulted in marked progress by the extremists, with the collapse of the Centre Party and the Social Democrats. The surprising Communist gains are due to reaction against Hitlerism. The Right demands the restoration of the monarchy and the rejection of . the experts’ reports. The Extreme ; Right desires to tear up the Versailles < Treaty. It is considered that the result must I ease the international situation* but i will increase Communism and necessitate concentration on international . affairs. It is expected that the disunited Central parties will reunite, but even ’ if they succeed, with the help of the Social Democrats and the German People’s Party in forming a new Cabinet its life is certain to be short.—(A. and N.Z.) GERMAN PRESS COMMENT. “The Times” says that the Berlin press as a whole derives cold comfort from the elections. Some Nationalist papers, however, are inclined to read the result as a warning to the Allies, especially France, that Germany is in no mood to be trifled with. The “Borsen Zeitung” and the “Deutsche Allgemein Zeitung” both think that the elections have facilitated the formation of an energetic bourgeois government, and that Germany will in future be represented with greater dignity in her dealings with foreigners.—(‘ ‘ Times. ’’) DAWES PLAN APPROVED. London. May 7.—The “Daily ChronI icle” states that the new Reichstag | will have a majority of at least 100 I in favour of the Dawes report. i The leaders also ’believe that they i can command the two-thirds majority ■ necessary for changing the Constitu- ! tion concerning railway control.—(A. I and N.Z.)