Intense Sensation Created by Yon Hindenburg Berlin, Oct. 18, The Chief of the Berlin police prohibited the Nationalist and Communist demonstrations that have been" announced for Sunday next. 'The ban is explained by the fact that, the political feeling over the Young Plan referendum" is daily becoming more' tense, the demonstrations might easily result in clashes and needless bloodshed.
An intense sensation was caused to-day by the publication of a statement made by Reich's President von Hindenburg to Chancellor Hermann Mueller in which the President "regrets and condemns" as insincere and as a personal attack, paragraph No. 4 of the referendum against the Young Plan, The passage in question provides for impeachment and proceedings. against the Chancellor and the members of the Cabinet if they sign the Young Plan or any treaty of a similar nature, The conservative press cither retrains from commenting on the President's statement or asserts that he has been incorrectly inform ed by his advisers since the paragraph in question is not meant to be retrospective but meant for future instances. The Nationalist paper "Berliner Nachtausgabe" even goes so far as to demand tha: the President should explain statement. Generally speaking. however, the statement is welcomed by the majority of the papers. Thus, the "Berliner Tageblatt" do: clares that the President "by his extremely refreshing and unequivocal statement has erected a barrier between himself and the dema-Rogues responsible for the referend-
Similarly the Berlin paper "Ves.
she Zeitung" states that in view of the President's well-known re-licence towards topical _politieai issues, his denunciation of paragraph' No, 4 of the referendum must be accorded exceptional importance. It is anticipated that the statement will considerably effect the result of the referendum, the signatures to which so far romain even below its promoters' expectations especially in the Rhineland where, for instance, in Cologne not even 1,000 electors have so far recorded the: r votes in favour of the referendum and this in spite of the violent Nationalist campaign carried on. Trans-Ocean Kuo
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