CRISIS IN GERMANY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14141, 11 June 1920, Page 5

CRISIS IN GERMANY.

POLITICAL SITUATION. CHAOTIC CONDITIONS CONTINUE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Friday, 9.20 a.m.) BER LIN, Thursday. The political situation continues chaotic. Jlerr Mueller iipnlmost certain to refuse to form a Ministry. The extension of ,th..coalition towards the Left is regarded as impossible. The Independents refuse to coalesce, and the Socialists decline to participate in a Government in which the Right par ties are represented. THE NEW REICHSTAG. 1 (Reuter’s Telegrams.) BERLIN, Thursday. The new Reichstag' consists of 4(10 members, composed las follows: — Social Democrats IK* Centre Party 0“ Democrats 45 Christian Federalists . - 21 German Nationalists 05 German People’s Party . (11 Independent Socialists . . SO Communists 21 Bavarian Peasants v.... 4 i Cruelphs 5 s The total poll was 25,719,000.

Herr Schlickc, Minister of Labour, was the only .member of ..-the Cabinet who failed to got a seat. ' 1 > "• FIkAL FIGURES. \ .(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) BERLIN, Thursday. ( •The final election figures /show- fiijj! position of parties' to be: Centre Party, 67 seats; Majority. Socialists, 110) Democrats, 46, giving the Coalition 221) seats, out of 460. ... The largest of .the other jVerti.es arc: —Nationalists, 65 stmts'; Popular Party, 61; Independent Socialists, >O. PARTY LOSSES AND GAINS. ■ (Reuter’s Telegrams.) BERLIN' Thursday. ; The results-show; the following eieej,--tion losses: Majority Socialists, 55 seats; Democrats; .‘10; Centre, 4; and the following gains: Independent Socialists, 58;- German People’s Party, 150; German Nationalists, 215. Thus the Coalition, which numbered 1526 in the old Assembly) lias now only 222 menibers, while the Opposition, which formerly numbered 86, is now 2158. f MUELLER TO FORM'CABINET. “.MORE DIFFICULTIES FOR v , . 4 „. - ALLIES..;’ - • c( Australian (and NtZe-Gable Association)) C ...nr •: s-,..8AR15,' Thursday? Advices from Bullin 'slate ' that IlCi'r dvbert j (Drcpii te uk) - 4i: is •‘ r o quo st ed Ho i|r AAlucller To'-foTiiit u( : 'C’abrnet. ‘ j-’"'Thlrt-‘press is; liffa/iimOwsiy ‘of ’ iipifWoS) ; rhat it.;>viU;.be,,ihi.j)ossji Ijl ,v to. .form a infting- coalition. vr-ar 'a.,:.: ‘ \ . . The “ Taggblnft; ’ \ dor coasts qn. early . dissolution o.f .the ijqw-Reichstag, , . « The “Matin’s” ..Berlin, c.orfes'j>iiu4- • eiit savs itJs> fexpcC.tc-d-'that sMuollej*, iii forming a Ministry, willv firstjieal fof the support'.‘of the Ihdbpondeuts. If this is refused he will seek tosecure popular Support. ;■ .; He adds: “ The outlook.js full of niciiace for Germany, and’c'ifrries" hi ore difficulties for the Allies, The for.uition of a" Governm'erit from the ’Moderate parties is impracticable.” - !. apart from obstacles, the si run* tion create by the elections will allow the Spa Conference io be helii on the date fixed for. it.. •

GROWTH OF “POPULAR.’/ PARTYFINANCED BY WAR CONTRACTOR [ • LONDON, Welnesfav. Thfe Daily. Chroniele’s BerTih ‘ eorrespondetu says a romantic teatufiV.oi'thh elections is the growth of the so-call-ed-Popular Party,,-which is identical with the old National Liberals, raised and financed by Jlerr Hugo ‘.Stunner, whn how: .controls 62 nbMspaptfrS. Herr Stiuner'is far and away the wealthiest and. ’mxist -powerful German, and is prbably worth Ii thousand million marks,l..; He male enormous fortunes out of-war contracts and has been spending liberally to build up a ne\y party on the ruins of Hie National Liberals, who collapsed with the ntbiiarchy. j His name is, now in everybody S mouth. Some think he is the great man .whom Germany is seeking as the saviour of the country.

The Berlin, newspaper “Freilieit states that the German workers are bent on following a clear Socialistic policy, and never again will they be used as a .tool by the bourgeois parties. -