Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-05-06 | Page 2 | Germans Give Dawes Report Bare Majority

MWIS GIVE DAWES REPORT BARE MAJORITY Balloting Shows Trend of Popular' Belief Country Cannot Escape Fulfillment Fulfill-ment of War Obligations . BERLIN, May . The German paopla gava tha Dawea-Touna; plan a narrow majority la tha national elections. Whatever tha ensuing government govern-ment and parllamant may do, official of-ficial rraulta of ajunday'e polling showed today that at leeat H (WO.-ooa (WO.-ooa of tha M.Ooa.ao voter ragla-tered ragla-tered approval of tha expert pro-poaala. pro-poaala. Tha total veto of tha floclallata.' Democrats. Canlarlata party candidal candi-dal all nf whom wra pledged to support th plan waa mor than half of th ballots east. Approiimatf ly 1I.00,0 rot e. thoa for Nationalists. FHlklst arid Communist. ppo th ltwii-Toun report. Th rmainlnf I.AOO.oAO rot ' m'aRfter iwiiai)- tor or afttnirnit plan. Th ratio of II to I undrtl-mats undrtl-mats th auccas of th modraiea, sine many Natlonallals votes war mrly protests aaaJnat fn-eral fn-eral conditions obtainins; under th postwar reiim) rathr than shsfts dlrocted at th a;ovmmnt's for-isn for-isn policy. Moraovfr It muit b rmmbrd .hat th Nationalist no kna;rr ar sriarp opponents of th lawfi-Young lawfi-Young plan eapr tally If they ar givn a hand In th government I for their leaders, at th clue of, th campaign, disavowed th Ht-1 ferrich a lost an. "A second Ver- sail lee." and let It b known they, vers willing to coo per te with the e pert s when th latter declared w. must deal with facta as they are. In other word a even th Nationalists Nation-alists hsv admitted Oermany can- 1 not escape fulfillment of her treaty obligations. PARIS. Msy O-rranra, If today' to-day' press correctly Interpret her attitude, aee In th result of the German elections a fsdtng out of hop for early fulfillment of th Daw-Toung plan. Tha Paris morning pa per a declar th outcome, with th gain registered regis-tered by th (frerman Nationalist party, render hope of fulfillment Illusory. although non xpects I open resistance. "Nothing will eucceed against Germany except force," Pertlnax. writing In th Echo d Paiis, declared. de-clared. He point out th difficulty of understanding wher a sufficient majority will be found to carry on a government. L Matin forecasts that th general gen-eral attltud of any new Gorman government will b roalatanc to treaty obligation.