Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
Grave Election Riots.

A London dispatch of yesterdays
date said: Grave election riots are
taking place today In Germany.
members of the national assembly.
A general strike has been declared
at Leipzig, which is without gas and
water, according to Copenhagen ad-
vices to the Exchange Telegraph
Lebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg ap-
pear to have made deep impression
in provincial towns and to have led
to demonstrations and street fighting,
it is reported. At Leipzig mob is
said to have destroyed the election
bureau of the democratic party and
to have confiscated the evening edi-
tions of the Leipzig Tageblatt, lei
tung and General Gazette. compelling
those papers to publish a declaration
deploring the murders in Berlin" and
blaming the government for them
Strikes and demonstrations are re-
ported in Dusseldorf and other towns.
towns.
Nuns March to Polling Booths.
AMSTERDAM, January 2o.-some-
Berlin Sunday, according to a dispatch
to the Handelsblad, when the nuns
from the Catholic Lyceum in Linden
strasse marched to the polling booths
in a group.
Extreme Radicals Fail.
COBLENZ, Sunday, January 19 (by
the, Associated Press).-The extreme
radicals are believed to have found
little support today among the Ger
man voters in the American zone of
occupation. Early reports tonight
indicated that the delegates elected
to the national assembly were from
the more conservative groups.
The American troops were on the
alert throughout the area of occupa-
ton, prepared to suppress any dis
order, but none was reported either
in Coblenz or in the smaller towns.
The voting was conducted quietly,
the only unusual feature being the
participation of the women. Both
the centrist and German democratic
parties had a woman among their
twelve candidates. The centrist candi-
date was Maria Schmidt. who is well
known in church circles. while the
German democrats had nominated
DR.. Lima Fischer Eckert.
Majority Socialist Vote Strong.
BERLIN, Sunday, January 10. mid
night (by the Associated Press).-
Only scattered returns FROM the cleo
tion in Berlin can be available before
Monday noon, as majority of the
election officials declared tonight they
were too tired to make a final count.
In the Ruhleben precinct the ma
jority socialists polled 1,02s votes and
the independent socialists seven.
Twenty -four of the S31 election dis
tricts in Greater Berlin give the follow
ing totals: German democratic party
1875; majority socialists S.195; inde-
pendent socialists 1905; German ma
tional party 4.706; German peoples party
1880; Christian (centrisD party 1884.
The strength shown by the democratic
party is surprising to the politicians in
view of the fact that Berlin always has
been overwhelmingly socialist.
Handbills Deluge Berlin.
BERLIN, January 19 (by the As
sociated Press).-The streets of Ber-
lin today were virtually buried under
deluge of election dodgers. hand
bills and leaflets. while the fronts of
houses and available windows were
plastered with huge posters hung up
by campaign workers during the
morning, frequently without the
knowledge of house or store propri-
etors.
The spectacle was one wholly new
to Berlin, where the billboard priv
ileges are strictly confined to the ia
miliar columns on the street corners,
while the distribution of handbiIIs is
ordinarily severely restricted by po-
lice regulations.
LONDON. January 20.-Details of
the proposed new constitution for
Germany, drawn up recently at a
conference Of widely-known authori-
ties on constitutional law, including
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