Evening star., 1919-01-23
EXPECT MAJORITY
SOCIALISTS RULE
GennaAs Report Democrats
Are Likely to Combine With
Leading Party.
ARMY COMMAND CHANGES

all the twenty-Sevssn electoral uls-
tricts in Germany, returning the full
number of 421 members of the ma
tional assembly, show the majority
socialists have a plurality in the
assembly, with 164 votes. The next
highest number of members was re-
turned by the Christian peoples s
party the former centrists. which will
have eighty-eight members. The dis
tribution of the members by parties
is as follows:
Majority socialists. 1854: Christian
peoples party, IS; democrats, Z! Ger
man national party. "a minority SO
cialists, "a; German peoples party,.2o
Guelfs, 4 Bavarian Peasants League,
4; Wurttemburg bourgeois party, -
Peasants and WorkmsnS Democratic
League, / total. Al.
Premier Ebert and Philip Scheide-
rNanns have gone to Wefmar to su-
parintend the making over OF the
court there there, in which the ma
tiouaI assembly is to meet
Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian premier,
failed to win a seat in the German
national assembly in any of the con-
stituencies where he was a candidate.
To Join With Democrats.
LONDON, Wednesday. january "a
According to an official wireless dls-
patch sent out from Berlin and picked
up here, the majority socialists have
by far the strongest party, while the
democrats will doubtless stand at the
head of thes non-socialist parties
1t is presumed, it is said. that the
majority so cialists and the democrats,
supported by an overwhelming MAJOR
|ity of the people. will be in position
L. ho national Assam hlV.
Among those whose seats are assured
are Count Posadowsky, DR.. Bernhard
Dernburg. former Chief of Police
Eichhorn and Hugo Haase.
The dispatch adds that the German
armistice commission has announced
tfrat according to a statement made by
Marshal Foch at TreveS, sea transport
for about $4,000 German soldiers as
sean bled at NikeIoyev Russia, as well
as German troopsaat Haifa, Syria, will
be undertaken by the entente. 1t is
said that only one of the allied powers
has not agreed to the plan.
Since German troops were summoned
to put down the Spartacan uprising in
Berlin the army has been assuming
a position. of greater Importance, ac-
,cording to advices received here.
Results in, Potsdams
COPENHAGEN, January 22.-Pots-
dam returned to the national assembly
five fnajority Socialists. one independ-
efft socialist, two German democrats.
one German national party and one
German peoples party.
Command of Peace. Army.
AMSTERDAM. "Wednesday. January
22.-Supreme command OF the German
peace army has been transferred from
the peoples 8, commissioners to the min
fster of war, who will be responsible
to the government. The transfer was
n1adeslsraths5the sappr0Eal of the sol-
diars' and wsorlunen's council. which
will still be responsible for all social
and economicS regulations concerning
sOfifcers will in future wear a dark
blue stripe on the left sleeve.s All
other distinctive marks have been
abolished. The obligation to salute is
reciprocal but has been abolished IN
the,big cities
The first, work of the national as
senlbly meeting at Weimar February
g. according to 5advices received from
Berlin, will be to elect q proyis1onal
government. The assembly Will then
Consider the draft of a constitution,
which is expected to occupys the re-
mainderzof February.
The German social democrats, ac-
cording to q dispatch from Berlin, will
be represented at the international
| socialist and labor conference at
Bern by Herman Mueller, Otto Wells
| and Richard sMolkenbuhr.