Coming Elections

P:As announced last week, Reichstag elections will be held May 4.

P:Under the slogan, "One people, one nation, one Kaiser," the German National People's Party launched a strong monarchist drive for the Reichstag elections. A party manifesto demanded repudiation of the Versailles Treaty, urged the youth of the land to tear away "the tissue of lies about Germany's war guilt," to go back to Bismarck and "fight everywhere against the destructive spirit of the Jews."

P: The united committees of various nationalist parties at reactionary Munich named for the next President of the German Republic "that dyed-in-the-wool monarchist, the incarnation of the old imperial German spirit" Admiral von Tirpitz, creator of the German Navy and father of Germany's ruthless submarine warfare.

P:The Republicans, Liberals, Socialists and Reds opened an all-along-the-line attack against the monarchist drive, arguing the effect of a monarchist revival on French policy and the ridiculous "Beer House Brawl" to discredit both the Berlin and the Munich reactionaries.

P: Hugo Stinnes, whose last political act was to desert his German People's Party and form a new group, independent of Foreign Minister Stresemann, to be known as the National Liberal Alliance, anonunced that he would not be a condidate for the Reichstag at this election. In the last session his only activities were in the Foreign Relations Committee. He said that he intended to devote most of his time to his industrial and commercial interests.