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Prospects are bad. Everyone admitted in Berlin last week that the current German unemployment and depression will mean big electoral gains for the "extremist parties," Communists & Fascists. Most unfortunate of all the prestige of Old Paul has suffered. Month ago it would have seemed incredible that the Reichstag should ring with cries of "Down with Hindenburg!" Perhaps, however, the deputies were chiefly irate because, being now no longer deputies, they have lost such pleasant hot weather privileges as unlimited, free, first-class rides on the German State Railways.
For the duration of the campaign the Prussian Government forbade the sale of guns, pistols, brass knuckles, bowie knives.