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Show Gain Both Seats. BERLIN", Friday, Dec. 6. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) in the elections held yesterday to fill two vacancies in the sol-diers' sol-diers' and workers' executive council, the left wing of the Social-Democrats or the Independent Socialists gained both seats. The council, which has twenty-eight members, is ostensibly the highest revolutionary revo-lutionary tribunal. By winning the two vacant seats, the ' Independents secured a working majority in the qouncil. The soldier element attributes at-tributes its defeat to the inability of Herr Melkenbuhr, a majority Socialist and one of the two chairmen of the excutive council, coun-cil, to cope with the other chairman, Richard Mueller, a representative of the workingmen. Mueller apparently has succeeded in converting the committee to radicalism, although its members are divided equally between the soldiers and the workmen. The soldiers stationed at Berlin, it is understood, oppose partisan politics, but have not yet been able to counteract the tactics of Mueller. The issue promises to reach a crisis late today, the soldiers having announced their intention of replacing re-placing Melkenbuhr and five other of their representatives with men determined deter-mined to neutralize the radical elements which dominate the executive council. Incidentally, the radical domination of the executive council is proving a stumbling stum-bling block for the cabinet of Ebert and Haase. |