The second ballots in the German elections were held last
Saturday and on Monday and Thursday. On Saturday last there were seventy-eight elections. The National Liberals, who hitherto had done very badly, won four seats, the Conservatives lost four, the Centre lost three, the Socialists won two, and the Radicals won seven. Thus at the end of an unexciting day the chief gains had fallen to the non-Socialist parties of the Left. Monday, on which day there wore seventy-nine elections, was much more sensational. The Socialists bad a series of remarkable successes. They failed by nine votes to carry the first division of Berlin (generally known as the Kaiser division), but they won Cologne from the Centre by a great majority of over 4,000. This day was the most im- portant in the whole general election. It made the Socialists stronger than any single party in the Reichstag.
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