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Show GERMANS VOTE BIG MAJORITY ' TO SOCIALISTS ! Canvass Made of Vote Cast ! Sunday For First Repub-i Repub-i lican Reichstag. i ; BERLIN. June 7. Majority Soclal-I Soclal-I ista have been elected to 3-1 scats In 'the first Republican rcichstag; according- to latest reports from the canvass of the vote cast yesterday. Independent Indepen-dent Socialists will huld.24 seats, the I German Peoplo's party, 125; Democrats Demo-crats 16; Nationalists IB; Centrists 'and Communists 2. ! The vote, according to figures labu- lated up to four o'clock this morning:, 1 follows: ' Mnjorlly Socialists, 2,107.000; Indc-I Indc-I pondent Socialists, 1,406,000; German People's party. 1,415.000; Democrats, 919.000; German Nationalists, 915,000; Centrists. SGI, 000; Communists, 138,-000. 138,-000. In the city of Berlin the Intent figures fig-ures show the independent Socialists cast by far the largest vole of any of tho parties, their total bolnjr 459.976, plvinff them seven seats In the rclch-stas'- lJernslorff Defeated. Count von liernstorff. former am- bassador to tho United States, run-I run-I nliis qk a German Nationalist, has been defeated. Prince and Princess Eitel Frled-1 Frled-1 orich and Princo Joachim, members I of the family of former Emperor Wll- Ham, recorded their votes nt Pots-I Pots-I dam. Tho following may be considered reelected: re-elected: Gorman Democrats: JJorr von Slems, Dr. Bombard Dernburg, former for-mer minister for tho colonies; Dr. Pet-; Pet-; erapn, II err llauaumann, Horr . Huschke, Professor Walter Schucck-I Schucck-I ing. j Majority Socialists: Hugo Hcimann, Richard Fischer, Ez-Clmnccllor Phll-illp Phll-illp Scheidomann, Edouard Bernstein, ! Otto Wols. Dr. Gustav Bauer, present minister of finance. Gorman People's party: Dr. Karl Holffrlch, former vice-chancellor; II err Reiffer, Professor Wilhelm Kahl, I Dr. Guatav Stresomann, Herr von Kar-dorff. Kar-dorff. Gorman Nationalists: nerr Wulle, Herr Lavorrcnz. Independent Socialists: Carl Fritz Subell, Herr Bretschled. Communist Disorders. According to tho North German Gazette's Ga-zette's advices from Stettin, the co.ni-, co.ni-, niunlsts at Polzln destroyed tho vot-ilng vot-ilng receptacles, which will necessitate 'another election there. At Hundls-' Hundls-' bnrg tho voting documents wero de-stroyed de-stroyed an the sequel to a quarrel over alleged faultj' registration. i The German election was held under un-der the proportional voting system, unokn which overy 60,000 votes ca3t by any party gives it ono member of the rolchstag. Thero Ib no definite number of seats In tho reichstag under thLn system. nn |