The Archive · 1929

Berlin, Dee. 22

Neatly 42,000,000 male and female] electors were entitled yesterday to participate in the Roferondam on the Nationalist "Liberty Bill" (The "Bill against. the Enslavement of the German Nation") which aimed at the rejection of the Young Plan and the trial for high treason the Ministers who signed it. But the majority of the voters abstained, many being more interested in "olden Sunday," that is, the great day for Christmas shopping.

Final results show that only 5,600,000 voted for the Bill instead! of nearly 21,000,000 which was the sary to make it law snt rejection of it in the Reichstag.

The result is, therefore, a crushing defeat for Here Huge berg, the "Press Kit and his! Nationalist followers—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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