The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-11-26
BOLSHEVIKS IN
MINORITY SHOWN
BY RETURNS FROM
GERMAN VOTING
Reds Garry Few Delegates
in Elections at Various
Points

Paris, Nov. 26.-It is reported that
at the election for choosing members
of the revolutionary committee at
Dresden, the Socialists cast S7,483
votes against $500 for the Indepen-
dent Socialists, who win have three
seats in the committee, which num-
bers so. German newspapers point
out that the result is clearly hostile
to the Bolshevist current threatening
to strangle Germany.
Berlin. Nov. 25.-Reports of tests
of strength between the conservative
elements and the independent and
"BoIsheviki" socialists in various
places in Germany continue to in
dicate that as far as mere numbers
go the extremists are almost negli-
gible.
The election to the soldiers and
workmens council in Dresden on
SSunday show that the extremists
400 for the old Socialists. Both
groups of independents won only
three or four seats in the council of
fifty.
Fuller reports from Bremen show
that the movement in the coast cit
les already has turned into a con-
servative channel
National Assembly Demanded.
Berlin, Monday, NOV. 25-A meet
ing of soldiers, workmen and peas
ants councils, representing Bremen,
Hanover, Hamburg. Oldenburg
FIensburg osnabrueke, Wilhelm
shayen and a number of smaller
places in the provinces of Hanover
and Schleswig Holstein adopted a
resolution declaring that these coun-
eds would Stand behind the present
government and demand the, convo-
cation OF a national assembly. The.
resolution was adopted by vote of
81 to 90.
Army For Assembly.
There also was crushing defeat for
the extremists at a meeting repres-
enting the tenth army corps at Han
over, where by a vote of 140 to 4, a
resolution was adopted against ef
forts to establish q dictatorship and
demanding the summoning OF a con-
stitutent assembly. -.-
Troops Reject 5oIshevisnr.
Soldiers from the front are be-
ginning to arrive in Berlin and men
who have conyersed with them ex-
press themselves optimistically as to
the result of their arrival as regards
it's effect upon the preservation OF
order. These men declare that the
great bulk of the soldiers reject Boil
ghevism in all its phases.
German SuppIant Red Flags.
1t also may perhaps be consider
ed an Indication OF the general pub
lies faith in the conservatism of the
soldiers that German and Prussian
flags are beginning to reappear over
all Berlin after having made way for
the red flag since November l., Only
in one OF the suburbs was any OBJ
lection raised to the flying of the ma
tional flags. Certain elements there
tore the PrussIan banners from the
street cars. Elsewhere the cmblems
were not disturbed.
Not All Harmony.
Copenhagen, Nov. 26.-ChanceIIor
Ebert addressed yesterday confer
ence OF about delegates from var
ious parts OF Germany, who gather
ed in the chancellor's palace, and
urged cooperation from the
throughout the former empire in
dealing with the present situation.
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Herr Ebert, consider a bill for the
election of national assembly, but
arrangements must be
Immediately made for the govern
ment of the federal empire.
DR.. Soif, the minister OF foreign |
affairs, declared the situation was
threatening, owing both to |
the "enemy's will to destroy" Ger
many and the separatist movements
in that country.
Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian Social |
list premier, protested sharply that |
both Herr Ebert and DR.. Solf were |
compromised by being representa- |
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