| Show GERMANS FAIL TO TAKE LANDS LANDS' I SPECTER OF BOLSHEVISM IS 18 THE THREAT THAT KEEPS MANY FROM POLLS Return Shows Show Those Who Balloted Favored Plan of Property Seizure Seiz Selz ure Big Cities Chiefly Support Support Sup Sup- port referendum Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's first national referendum under tho the republican conS con held IleM Monday to decide tho the question of expropriating without compensation com corn the tho entire properties antI and estates of tho former rulers with particular particular par par- interest centering on the tho former for for- snot mer German and amid tho tito lichen lichen- zollern ollern family tailed to poll an I aUTo vote voto of ot half halt tho tim eligible t electors lectors l Final returns In tile the referendum show altow Affirmative nega negative tire tive The negative n vote had no relation to the tho r result sult ns as tho adoption of tho the measure measure depended on whether halt half tho the electorate electoral tt namely about voted affirmatively Yuly 60 CO per er cent of the tho eligible voters stayed away from the tho polls while 35 per er cent Indorsed unconditional unconditional unconditional confiscation Defective ballots and negative constituted d only a n small percentage While admitting that t tho advocates of ot expropriation made a respectable showing In the tho the govern govern- ment loaders were visibly gratified when final fina returns definitely presaged the measures measure's measures measure's defeat Their t finn fin ts tt U nil mi If tt A n nil n. a t n Y 1 u a v. v v w J Internal political considerations as ns the feeling that the tho definite rejection of such a radical law will Impress the tho outside world with the cons conservative character of the Gorman electorate regardless of ot the fact tact that the personal per per- renal interests of ot the tho former princes were at stake An analysis of the vote shows that the tho confiscation proposal was chiefly supported by the tho big cities in the tho industrial industrial in In- sectors as ns in the tho Ruhr and Saxony but In tho the flat country national na no lonal strongholds such as Bavaria I tile the issue was rejected through restricted restricted re reo turnout of voters In Munich 1 participation was only 32 per cent while In East Kast t Prussia it dropped to 20 per cent One of trio the strongest opponents of the proposed confiscation was President President President dent von who in a personal personal per per- sona letter declared that tho the addition of such a n m measure asure would be contrary to all right and Justice Ills His home homo hometown town Hanover however rolled up a voto vote of in favor tavor of the confiscation co is cation which is slightly more more nore than half halt the number numbe of eligible voters |
