GERMAN ELECTIONS

Wairarapa Age, 22 May 1928, Page 5

GERMAN ELECTIONS

HEAVY LOSSES SUFFERED BY NATIONALISTS. SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST GAINS AN UNOFFICIAL FORECAST United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Monday, 7.5 p.m.). BERLIN, May 20. An Unofficial forecast of the constitution of the Reichstag gives the following figures of party strength-— Socialists, 160. Nationalists, 70. Centre, 69. _ Communists, 58. People’s Party, 54. Democrats, 25. Economic Party, 23. Fascists, 16.. Bavarian People’s Party, 19. Other parties, 6. The Nationalists lost heavily in the big cities, the Socialists and Communists gaining about fifteen per ceit. at the expense of the National’sts.— (Australian Press Association). HEAVY POLLING EX-KAISER’S SON CREATES SENSATION BERLIN, May 20. It is estimated that 80 per cent, of the electorate voted in Berlin and voting was heavy elsewhere. The returns will be made known to-morrow, though the earliest indicate that the Socialists and Communists have strengthened their hold in Berlin proper. Potsdam is firmly Nationalist. Jt hundred arrests ar© reported. There was a sensation in Potsdam when the ex-Kaiser’s fourth son appeared on a platform to speak on behalf of the Labour Party. He assured his audience as to his own democratic principles, and added that the dynasty to which he belonged made the fatal mistake of holding aloof from the masses. Had his father no-, committed that blunder, ho might still nave been ruling. It is interesting to note that two million now voters, have sprung up since the 1924 elections, with no know ec.go of pre-war Germany, and unable to contrast Republican with Monarchical conditions.—(Australian Press As.sociation).