Evening star., 1924-05-05
LIBERAL COALITION
ASSURED CONTROL
IN NEW RE|CHSTAG
Dawes Plan Supporters Gain
Probable Majority of Ten
Seats Over Radicals.
TWO-THlRDS OF VOTERS
TAKE PART In ELECTION
McnarchiSts and Communists Fail
to Make Expected Gains-All
Leaders Returned.


to Make Expected Gains-Al
Leaders Returned.
Ey ne Ns~o,ated Press.
BERLIN, May 5.-The promised
.bie. coalition" of the Moderates. COM
priSiug the Socialist, Clerical, Demo
cratic and Peoples parties, is regard
cd as assured on the basis of partial
returns from yesterdays parliamen
tary election.
Thus the people apparently have
placed their approval on the Dawes
PREPARATION report, as the leaders of
TIN, Nodcrates, including Foreign Min
liter Strcsemann, based their cam
paigu ON the adoption and execution
Of the report as sure cure for the
c"untrys ailments.
Makc-Ip of ReichstaG.
provisional list of the deputies so
T.r chosen to the Reichstag, based
IN returns received up to O'Clock
fhis afternoon. gives the expected
coalition Of Moderates, Socialists,
,.l ricals. Democrats and Peoples
rarty members 229 seats, or ten more
than the total of all the seats filled
IN the numerous other parties com
n:ucd
The provisional list as thus tab
mated i as follows:
Socialists ninety nine; Communists.
ffty-uine; Democrats, twenty-fve:
Center party, siXty-one; BaVarian
Peoplee' party. fifteen; German Peo-
NJ. NJ German
tioual party, ninety-three: Extreme
National party. 2S: Hanoverians.
fifteen: others, nineteen.
Total, AS.
Monarchists Fall OFF.
The Nationalists and Communists
made some gains. but the vote polled
by Gen Ludendorffs $ ultra-mon-
archists did not come up TO expecta-
tions, and the result indicates deci-
sive failure of the reactionary and
radical campaigns.
The balloting was heavy and it is
deputies will be added to the Reich
stag, increasing the membership to
AS.
Returns from twenty-five of the
seventy-tiye electoral districts show
ed election Of PA candidates. includ-
ing SIS Socialist Democrats, 3S Com
munists, II Democrats, 80 Centrists,
25 German Peoples Party, AZ Ma
tionalists and 13 Bavarian Peoples
Party.
The remainder were distributed
among the other various parties.
as Per Cent Vote.
About IS per cent of the electorate
voted throughout the Reich.
Among the notables elected are
Count Won Bernstorff, former ambas-
sador to the United States; Gen. Lu-
dendorf, head of the extreme Ma
tionalists; Chancellor Marx. former
Chancellor Wirth, the young Prince
Won Bismarck, grandson of the Iron
Chancellor, and Admiral Won Tirpitz,
the minister of the navy during the
world war
Socialists Keep Strength.
Available results are sufficient to
show roughly how the new reichstag
will be constituted. The Socialists lost
between 50 and so seats, chiefly to the
Communists, but are still the strongest
party in the House with about 10
deputies, as compared with 172 before
the election.
The German Nationalists will stand
next in strength with 80 deputies, or
gain. of from 20 to 25. The Com
increase Of from 80 to 35, and the
extreme Nationalists probably will
have 90 seats as against in the last
reichstag.
There is every indication that the
German Nationalists will be the decid-
ing factor in the new government.
BernstorF Elected.
Won Bernstorff was returned as a
Democratic deputy. His vote in a
Schleswig-H -Holstein district was practi-
cally the same as in 1920. The Ger
man Nationalists there showed a gain
at the expense of the Peoples Party,
while the a-Nationalists gained to
the loss of the Socialists.
Won Bernstorff's district returns
three German Nationalists, two men,
hers of the Peoples Party, one Demo-
crat, four Socialists and one Com
rnunist.
All the members of the Hohen-
zollern family living in Potsdam
voted, including Prince Eitel Fred
erich, Prince oscar and Prince
August Wilhelm.
Two intimate friends of the Ho-
henzollern family, Count August Zu
gutenberg, former master of cere-
Won Dryander, the son of the late
court preacher, will be among the
newcomers in the Reichstag, both
having been returned on the ma
tionalist ticket.
Pacifst Wins Seat.
on the other hand, Prof Walter
Schuecking, Democrat, and among the
earliest opponents of the Hohenzol-
Iern policy, was reelected. Prof.
Schuecking, a world known pacifst,
authority on international law and
member of The Hague court of arbi-
rration. was prosecuted during the
war because of his pacifist views.
but became one of the five German
p!enipotentiaries at Versailles.
The exploits of the German cruiser
Emden are recalled by the election
of Capt. Hellmuth Won Muecke,
commander of the vessel during part
of the war period, on the ultra
Nationalist ticket.
Among the Socialists returned are
2 Frau Tony Sender, reputed the most
beautiful woman in the last Reich
stag and a remarkable linguist and
Herman Silberschmidt, who led the
Franco- German workers negotia-
lions in 1920 for the rebuilding of
northern France on a cooperative
basis