GERMAN ELECTIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19008, 8 May 1924, Page 5

GERMAN ELECTIONS

NATIONALISTS IN MAJORITY GENERAL POSITION STILL CONFUSED LONDON, May 6. The Daily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondent states that the new Reichstag will have a majority of at least a hundred in favour of the Dawes' report. The leaders also believe they can command the two-thirds majority necessary for authorising the change in the Constitution concerning railway control. PROGRESS OF EXTREMISTS LONDON, May 6. The German elections resulted in marked progress of the extremists, with the collapse of the Centre Party and Social Democrats. Surprising Communist gains are due to the reaction against Hitlerism, the Right demands for the restoration of the Monarchy, and reaction against the experts’ reports. The Extreme Right desires to tear up the Versailles Treaty. It is considered the result must ease the international situation, but it will increase Communism and necessitate German concentration on international affairs. It is expected that the disunited Central Parties will reunite, but even if they succeed, with help of the Social Democrats and the German People’s Party, in forming a new Cabinet, its life is certain to be short. THE SITUATION CONFUSED NATIONALISTS MAY PREDOMINATE. BERLIN, May 6. Further results of the election make the situation confusing. It is now in no wise certain that the Socialists will he the largest party in the Reichstag, as German Nationals, already numbering 99, will probably be joined by nine or ten deputies of the so-called Landbund, supporters o£ whom are ex-members of the German National Party. If so, the Nationals will be the largest party and should the present Government resign, President Ebert is bound to ask the German Nationals to form a Government. FRENCH OFFICIAL VIEWS PARIS, May 6, The Foreign Office considers that Germany is nearer to Monarchy than at any time since the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The Ruhr and Rhineland voting disproves the contention that the occupational policy is driving Germany to a war of revenge. BERLIN PRESS COMMENTS A WARNING TO THE ALLIES. LONDON, May 6. The Times’ Berlin correspondent says that the Berlin press as a whole derives cold comfort from the result of the elections. Some Nationalist papers, however, are inclined to read the result as a warnfing to the Allies, especially France, that Germany, backed by strong Nationalist representation, is in no mood to be trifled with. The Borsen Zeitung and the Deutsch Allgemeine Zeitung both think the elections have facilitated the formation of an energetic bourgeois Government, and that Germany will in the future be represented with greater dignity in her dealings with foreigners, which “is something that France must note, as it means that Germany will no longer tolerate further attempts tn experiment with her internal policy.” 23 WOMEN MEMBERS ELECTED May 6. Twenty-three women were (-fleeted to the Reichstag, the majority of whom belong to the Left.