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POSITION.
RELIEF IN AMERICA.
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A. At Whidior, ... Mr. A... Somerville, the Conservative re- gistered 20,370-votes against Mr. CN. Crisp's 5,514 for Laboin.
Mr. James Stewart, Minister of Health for Scotland, was elected; at St. Rollox.
¿31, 1924.
GAINS
147
were the losses: Conservatives ......... 16 Labourites... 61
Liberals 109 Professor Robert Richards, Under Secretary for India, has been defeated.
Mr. George Lansbury has been re-elected for Bow and Bromley.
CONSERVATIVE GLEE.
Conservative Headquarters are in the highest spirits. The opinion there is that the results of the elec tion are not satisfactorily fulfill ing anticipations.
THE CHINA MAIL.
London," said that Labour's polki of 5.000.000 otce was a wonderful] manifestation of its power.
FAILURE OF WOMEN. Only four women were elected out of 41 candidate. They were Lady Astor, Duchess of Atholly Mra Philipson and the newcomer, Miss Wilkinson. Eight women were elected last year. At the pre sent elections they recurva tatal of 401,750 votes.
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COMMENT IN GERMANY.
·GOLF INTERPORT.
MACKENZIES SUNDAY SCRUPLES.
(Router's Service.)
SHANGHAI, October 30. **The" - Hongkong (and Shangimi interport golf matches ended all square, each team winhing 'one- foursome, the other being daiveti. A. H. Ferguson and A E Mackenzie (Hongkong) beat Ferrier and Barrett, 4 and 3, Budd; The magnitude of the Conserva and Pilcher Beat R. A. Camidge tive victory in Britain and the und L W. Shewan (Hongkong) 3 overwhelming Liberal losses have and 2 and Oswald and Porter surprised the Pross, which unau. Smith and Captain L. Bennet mously agrees that Mr. Stanley (Hongkong) ended all square, Baldwin in the Premiership will In the last named match, Porter
Berlin, October 30.
HINA'S WAR.
STILL STRUGGLING FOR POWER.
NOT YET CLEARED.
YET
WU SUGGESTS TERMS FOR PRACE.
(Reuter's Servies,)
PEKING, October 31. report the Chithil-lles wale rester Telegrams from Chilawangtzo
Gay boarding steamers at Chia. aiready reached, Tongku but the wangtao. Twenty thousand hase, Captain (C. C. Cras Conserva
temper of these troops uncertain tive) gained Crewe, defeating the
General Feng Yu-hsiang has Labour candidate, Mr. E. G. Hemmerde, K. C. by a majority of
rod a general, aninek on the 3,628.
Langfang front to-night. -The- Dr. W. A. Chapple (Liberal) lost! A high official of the Liberal not mean any change in Britain's put the match one up at the result of this fighting" must go | Dumfries to the Conservative, Party declared the returns over foreign policy as far as Germany is sixteenth hole with a long putt. Joy to clear the air. General Charteris by a majority of)]:whelmingly demonstrate the need concerned, and the fall of the All four players frot threes at the Latest reports say that Hilab 4,246. It was a triangular contest, for such reform of the electoral Labour Government will not detri- seventeenth. Smith was bunker Yathan (one of the major Central. Anglo-German ed at the eighteenth but Bennet China Tuchuns) is alding Wu
drove from the rough and reser covered beautifully, and won the! hole squaring the match and saving the team from defeat.
Mackenzie, moved to second: position in the foursomes, played The romlt of the election has fine golf With great regret he more than justified the profound says he cannot play in the cham- confidence he has always had in the pionship on Saturday and Sum-NC Daily News reports, political judgment and common day owing to scruples against from Tientsin, are that Wu Pei-fu sense of the British people when Sunday participation. It Is felt has instructed his representative to confronted with an issue of grave here he would have an excellent open negotiations with General
chance to Win.)
Feng Yu-bsiang and Marshal importance.
POSITION AT 4 p.m.
At 4 p.m., the position wast
Conservatives
Labourites
Liberals
GAINS.
relations, except possibly in regard to commercial relations,
··, BALDWIN'S MESSAGE.......... Mr. Stanley Baldwin has sent a message to his electors, saying:
in, which Mrs. Ages: Dollan stem as it deliver the country mentally affect
Labour) was at the bottom of them the peril of a minority poll,
representation. The rout of the Liberal party has caused conster- nation in political circles. Even the Conservatives regret the eclipse of historic opponents, but the, Liberals staunchly declare the eclipse is only temporary. They suggest the disaster is due not so inuch to the fact that the country voted anti-Liberal as to the fact that it voted anti-Labear. Un- doubtedly many voters, normally Liberal, voted Conservative in örden to. Zeep fout în & Labourites. The Liberals think the informal fact was of more advantage to the Conservatives than the Liberals, i as the Conlèjvatives did not vote for the Liberals so freely as the Liberals for the Conservatives. PREMIER'S SOUR GRAPES,
Independents
The gains now stand:
Conservatives
Labouritesù.
147
7
Liberals
LOSSES,
Conservatives .........
6
The losses are;
59 год
Labourites caracte Liberals ..... The Conservatives thus already exceed their figures at the 1923
Elections.
ABBREVIATED RESULTS. - Mr. Sidney Webb, (Labour), President of the Board of Trade, has beeh returned for Seaham.
Mr. William Graham (Labour), Financial Secretary to the Treasury, has been chosen at Edinburgh Central
Mr. Noel, Buxton (Labour), Minister of Agriculture, has been elected at Norfolk..
Miss Dorothy Jewson has been defeated at Norwich..
Mr. John Robertson (Labour), has been re-elected at Bothwell, defeating the Conservative, Mrs "Helen Shaw. The majority:has
been halved:
The Secretary of Overseas Trade, Mr. William Lunn, has been re-elected for Rothwell, in a straight fight with the Liberal candidat.
Mr. MacDonald, the Premier, In times found defeat was the finest 2.speech at Cardiff, said they come thi that could happen to any Party. In view of the state of Trade and General outlook, he did not envy the Tory Party their job.
Mr., Ralph Hall Caine (Con servative) has been elected in. a triangular contest at Dorset East.
Mr Derwen Hall Caine (Labour); has been defeated at Clitheroe.
COMPARATIVE TABLES,
Fasis of Discussio
(Reuter's Service)
Shanghai. October 31.
On Wednesday night, Hong-Chang Tso-lin. ................. kong and Shanghai were all At 8 pm today the compera-square, three matches each, on the
singles:] live tables were:
LONDON BOROUGHS, Conservatives
Labourites "Liberals
40
8
LAST YEAR'S FIGURES. Compared to last vanr's figurbe :
Conservatives ... 29 Labourites Liberals
UNIVERSITIES.
Conservatives
Labourites Liberals
-22- 11
Last year the figures were and 2, but 10 have not yet
Both are sons of the novelist, of Derwent,, Hall Caine, predicted declared. who, in a recent speech on behalf that he was the future Prime Minister.
Captain Brass (Conservative) who has just returned from South Africa; Mr. Victor Clitheroe, Mr. Robert Smillie. (Labour) and Mr.j Jack Jones (Labour) have been elected, he REJECTION OF RED FLAG. (Reuter's American Service.)
Sk *
Mr. W. M. R. Pringle, the Liberal organiser, is at the hottom of the poll at Penistone, where Mr. T.
NEW YORK, October 30. Smith has been setumed by Labour with a majority of 1271] . The Americad newspapers over the Conservative candidate.generally interpret the British Commander Hilton Young elections as a definite rejection of (Liberal), and Captain G. Fairfax the "Red Flag" and that they -(Conservative) gained Norwich des point a ntoral to American
feating the Labourite, Mr. W. 'R. politicians."
Smith, Parliamentary Secretary of | STERLING EXCHANGE RISES. the Board of Trade, and Miss The results of the election in Dorothy Jewson (Labour) respec-Great Britain have led to sterling tively.
for several months. exchange rising 104.52, the highest
Mrs. Hilton Philipson (Conserva- tive)
has been elected in triangular contest at Berwick..
a
Mr. W. Adamson, Secretary for Scotland, has been elected at Cannock,
Wiltshire and Suffolk have, both voted solidly for the Conservatives. The Conservative, Mr. Fan- shawe, gained Clackmannan and West Stirling from the Labour Extremist, Mr. Thomas Johnston by a majority of 294.
Stocks and honds have ma terially improved:
PREMIER MAY RESIGN. Well-informed Labourites are now of opinion that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will resign before Par liament meets, and thus allow time for the formation of a. Conservative Cabinet, which will submit the King's speech in the House of Commons.
The Conservative, Colonel J. B.| One objection to Mr. Ramsay Dodge, gained Mile End, in a MacDonald's resignation is his in- triangular contest, by a majority tention to fully inquire into the of 3,346, defeating the Labourite,, Zinovieff letter. Mr. John Scurr.,
Those Laborites: who are not The Labourite, Mrs. Simpson, too much disappointed with the re- was defeated by the Conservativesult of the elections point out that candidato for Dorset West
Commander Kenworthy (Labour) markedly increased, but the luck of the aggregate Labour vote is has been re-elected at Hull.
the election was against them as regards representation. They de-
FURTHER FIGURES.
Conservatives
At 4.30 p.m. the state of the clare that Labour is the only alter poils was:
native Government, and they must sooner or later gain an absolute majority.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, spesk- ing at Cardiff, on departing for
Labourites
Liberals Independents
378
141
36
CAMBRIDGESHIRE; '
TWELVE-POINTER WINS;--
TWENTY-SEVEN RUNNERS..
(Reuter's Service)
LONDON," October 30, Owing to yesterday being election day England, the race for the Cambridgeshire was nét báck one day. It was decided at Newmarket today over the mile and a furlong ackbes the
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The result was?"
ENGLISH BOROUGHS,
Now Then
•Conservatives ....123 81 Labourites.... 53 67 Liberals
15 43 Independents
2. 2
ENGLISH COUNTIES.
Now Then Conservatives ..187 112 Labouriles
37 50 Liberals
5 67
Independents...... 1. 1
WELSH SEATS
Now Then Conserves...... 9 1 Labouritee
16 19 Liberils
10 12 SCOTTISH SEATS.
Cotiservatives Labourites Liberal
Now Then 33 13 26 34
4 22
1 2
3
The basis of discussion proposed by Wa Paifu is that Chang Tso Hrithdraws to Menghturia and acknowledges the authority of the Central Government; and that all -parties agree to return to the status quo.
́"Blood Money.*
(Reuter's Service)
-Peking, October:gd; General Feng Ya-hsiang, the. Christian General") has issuDR. proclamation offering $100,000 for the capture of Wu Pel-fu alive, or 350,000 to anyone shooting him.
Wu' Decisive Defeat.
(Reuter's Service.)
Shanghai, October 30.
front is of a decisive nature.
Twelve Pointer 4y25, 8st 12lbs...., The defeat of Marshal Wu Pei- Bachelor's Fort byre: 7st. 5lbs. fa's army on the Shaphalkwan Verdict 4yrs. Bat. 12lbs.
Twenty-sevenì rån. Won by length, the same distance separating second and third:
BETTING.
Starting prices were :---
9-1 agsi. Twelve Pointer. 40-1 agst, Bachelor's Fort. 33-1 aget. Verdict.
EXTORTION.
THREE MONTHS' JÀIL
IMPERSONATED P.W.D. MAN.
At the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. E: W: Hamilton, Chan Wing wait was Independents
charged with having obtained: a Figures for five boroughs in sum of $10 from a Chinese woman Scotland have not yet been under false pretences. The declared.
defendant was proved to have impersonated himself as an official of the P.W.D. and extorted; the money from the complainant in order to prevent her house being demolished.
NORTH IRELAND
ConservativeR Independents
Now Then
10 0 2 Five returns have yet to be declared.
DIVISION OF FVOTES.
An analysis of the voting in the results so far known show the following distribution
Conservatives .7,598,000 Labour
5,702,000 Liberal
3,105,000 56,000
With General Feng Yu-hsiang's forces barring the road to Pelding, the Hankow-Peking line cut, and Marshal Chang Tso-lin's divisions coming On rapidly towards Tiantsin, Marshal Wu Rei-fu is now in a perilous position. He has decided to face Chang Tso-lin's pursuing army from Shanhalkwan and is preparing for battle: táť? Lutal to defend Tientsin, which is forty miles off,
SHANGHAI'S TROUBLES,
EPIDEMIC OF SERIOUS CRIME,
POLICEMEN SHOT.
(Reuter's Service.)
SHANGHAI, October 30. Shanghai is suffering from an aftermath of the war in the form of an increasingly large number of armed robberies by ex-soldiers and loafers, who have come into possession of arms through military sourcER - VILLANT
The defendant had victimised This month's number of robberies two others in a similar manner, is the largest for some years. but the charges welc later his moining, three-tolbers withdrawn.
raided an exchange shop and shot Sentence of three months" a shop assistant who tried to block rigorous imprisonment was im their escape. posed.
Sandya Exropsan Fired At!
va The robbers also shot a Chinese policeman in their flight. 14.
The robbers met foreign Serge-
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