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Tol. Contrel No. 118
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1924.
„DAY BY DAY.
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THE HOME ELECTION.
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Chancellor of Exchequer Returned.
notice that a great doul is likely to be made of the alleged forgo ry. attributed to Zinovloff, which
LET EACH ONE, ACCEPT. HIS camo as an eleventh-hour factor
TASK; A TASK WHICH SHOULD in the olootion issue. We fall to FILL HIS LIFE.
DE IT MAY soo, In view of the doubts ax-VERY ́HUMBLE; IT WILL NOT
Major Astor, Conservative, ownor of the Times has boon olooted pressed in all quarters as to its BE THE LESS USEFUL
MIND WHAT 18; 80 LONG AS for Dover in a straight fight with Labour, with a majority of 13,550. genuineness, that this lattor
IT EXISTS AND KEEPS YOU Mr. Philip Snowdon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has boon jcould have had a very marked | EREOT-Emile Zola,
|olected in a triangular contest at Colne Valley, with a majority of3,243. Commander. Hilton Young, Liboral, and Captain. G. Fairfax, effect-but, prosuming it had,
[Conservative, gained Norwich, defeating Mr. Walter Smith, Boorot- thon it means that the country Loung Kat, 15-year-old boy, has definitoly given its answer is now in the custody of the ary to the Board of Agriculture, and Miss Dorothy Jow
Mrs. Hilton Philipson, Conservative, was olicted in a triangu- Police on a charge of stabbing lar fight at Berwick. to Bolshovism, and in its accum- bis foster-mother. The woman plative effect this roply of the was tojured in one leg and was Caunook.
The Socrotary for Scotland, Mr. Wm. Adamson, was elected för British people will he notod romoved to the Government Civil
Flospital yesterday. throughout the world. and particularly by our Russian
The President of the Board of Trade Mr. Sidney Webb, Mr. An accident occurred at the William Graham, Financial Boorotary to the Treasury, and Mr. Noe! friends. For ourselves, we junction of Argyle Stroot and Buxton, the Minister of Agriculture, have been olooted for Seaham, observe with the greatest satis- Reclamation Street yesterday, Edinburgh Central and Norfolk, respectively. faction that the bulk of the when an old Chinose woman was The Labourito, Mr. Robertson, was elected at Bothwoll,' dofeat- poople of Britain have not lost knocked down by the fire tondering the Conservative Mrs. Holon Shaw by a majority which wa
She was injured in the right leg, halved, thoir innate commonsonse, and and was removed to the Kwong still cling to the principles of law Wah Hospital. and order which are their glorious heritage.
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The Secretary for Overasan Trado, Mr. Lunn, was elected at Rothwell in a straight fight with a Liberal..
The Liberal organisor, Mr. Pringle, was at the bottom of the Japanese boats in the harbour poll at Penistone, whore Mr. Smith, Labour, was returned with a "dressed ship" to-day, in honour majority of 1,278 over a Conservative. of the Emperor of Japan's The Under-Socrotary of Hosith for Scotland, Mr. James Stowart, birthday. The Japanese Consul was elected for Strollox. The Conservativo, Mr. Craig, guinod Crowe, invited a number of prominent defeating the Labourite barrister Mr. Hemmordo by a majority of local officials to timin at the 6.628, The further case of highway Hongkong Hotel, while Japanese Mr. Chapple, Liberal, lost Dumfries to the Conservativo Gonors! robbery from a Eurapoan lady firms in all sections of the Colony Charteris in a triangular fight by a majority of 4246. Mr. Dollan, a which we reported yesterday again obsorved a holiday.
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At Windsor Mr. Somerville, Conservativo, polisd. 20,370, and Mr. C. N. Crisp, Labour, 5,514,
More Conservative Gains.
Mr. Ronald MacNeill, Conservative, was elected at Canterbury
Thoro has been quite an epidemic with the option of a fine of $25 of bag-snatching casos, whilst our was the penalty imposed on a police courts have recorded an Chinose woman by Mr. Wby a majority of 9,632 over a Liboral. increase in the number of casas of Hamilton. at the Kowloon general crime. The belief is Magistracy this morning, for triangular fight against the Labourite, Doctor Ethel Bentham. The The Conservative, Major Taskor, gainod Islington East in a forced upon one that we are to-depositing the dead body of a Liberal was Mr. Comyns Carr. day housing a great many ori-child, two months old, in Fife minals who would otherwise be Stroot, on the 29th inst. in Cantor but who, in company
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Wiltshire and Suffolk are solidly Conservativo.
The Conservative Mr. Fanshawo gained Czokannan West from the Labour éxtremist Mr. Johnston, by a majority of 294.
The Conservative, Colonel J.B. Dodge, lost at Mile End in a triangular contest by a majority of 3,346, being defeated by the Labourito Mr. Scurr.
The Labourite Mrs. Simpson was dofoated by a Conservativo at Doreet Wost.
Commander Kouworthy was elected.
Shinwall, was defeated.
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Minos, Mr.
Both Renfrew. divisions are solidly Conservative... Cumberland has now throo Conservatives and one Labourite, Mr. Asquith's old Conservativo antagonist, Sir A. Sprot, zained North Lanark from the Labourito Mr. Sullivan.
The Conservative Mr. MacIntyre gained Edinburgh West from Mr. Vivian Phillips.
Sir Alfred Mund Elected,
with hundreds of the inore Among those who arrived in rospactable Chinese, have come the Colony aboard the Admiral down to Hongkong on account of Lino 8.8. Prosidont Madison, this the recent trouble. We Britiahors morning were, Brig. Gen. Frank pride ourselves on the fact that R. McCoy, U.S.A., assistant to we offer asylumn to all who might|Govoruor General Wood of the Although the fall election ro-need it, but one cannot help ques-Philippine Islands, and wife, Mr. turns are not yet available, it is tioning whether it is a wise policy R. C. Morton, director U. S. possible to estimate quite clearly to lot all and sundry, irrespective Shipping Board, Mr. R. M. what the result has boon--a every recrudescence of trouble in and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scholtz. of status, enter this Colony. With Johnson, U. S. Shipping Board, tremendous majority for the Canton wo get a tremendous influx Jr., of Louisville, Ky., U.S.A. Conservatives, leaving them a of natives and it is inevitable that big safety margin over all others. among them there will be ne'er- Marsh-McCarmack While a striking Conservativo tion has often been asked whether
do-wells and criminals. The quea
majority was not unexpected, wo it is not possible to do a little
Sir Alfred Mond was elected; and the Conservativo ox-Minister think that few persons.
avon sorting out as those people come
Sir C. Sanders, gained Wells in a triangular fight with a Liberal and amongst the most optimistic of
off the river boats and to. keup the party workers, could have tion all those who fail to satisfy
Hegregated for police investiga- PUISNE JUDGE'S REMEDY, an Independent Liberal.
The Labourite Mis. Corner was refented at Farnham by a thought that the country would the examining officers. Such a for further casos, Mr. Justice
Before proceeding to fix datos Conservative.
Mr. Bonar Low's socrotary the ox-Minister Mr. Davidson show its
were introduced, Gomportz, in the Summary Court goinod Homelhempetoad in a triangular contest in which the preference in such system, if it overwhelming terms. Not only amount of extra work and would had been booked up to the end of
would admittedly entail a great this morning, remarked that cases Labourito Miss Sayla was defeated. has the general election proved a call for the establishment of a November. groat Tory victory, but it has special staff to deal with it, but Roprosentations had been glado also resulted in a decisive Labour crime prevention, and prevention but he thought that the conges- it would be a great source of to him that the liet was congostad, defeat. As we previously con-is always better than cure. The tion was only relative. On four at Shrewsbury, where the unsuccessful Labourite. Mr. Lawley, le a montad, the Liberals had defin-systom would have its objections of the last eight days he had only blind man. itely lost their standing, and it but it is argued that its benefits had half an hour's work in the The Conservative Miss Irome Ward-was-bosten by Mr. Smillio-
would greatly outweigh them. Courts and it was absurd to con-at Morpeth. War a straight issue between Cortain it is that something.inue that state of affairs when
Mr. March was re-elected at South Poplar, defeating Mr. H. Conservatism and Labour. The oither an the littos suggested the hearings were all behind. For Williams, Liberal, in a straight fight by a majority of 6,515. Liberal losses have been excoed-above or in the way of extra the time being two courts would police on patrol, is necessary to sit in Summary Jurisdiction, ono
Manx Novelist's Bad Guess. ingly heavy, and almost input a stop to these regrettable being taken by Sir Henry Gollan Mr. Ralph Hall Caino, Conservative was elected in a triangula overy case whore the party and all too frequent attacks on. and the other by himself. He also fight at Dorset East. Mr. Dorwent Hall Caine, Labourite, was dec opposed the Tories its candidato European ladios.
proposed to put more casos down feated at Clitheroe. These are sons of the novelist, who in a recen for bearing each day than spooch on behalf of Derwent predicted that Darwent was a futur formerly.
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Captain Brass, Conservative, who has just returnedfrom South Africa, was the victor at Clitheroo.
Mr. Robert Smillió and Mr. Jack Jones, Labourites, have heart alactod.
The Conservative Mr. Mitchell gained Lanark in a triangular contest, defeating the Liberal, Miss Mitchell, and a Labourite.
The Conservative Mr. Coupor gained Maryhill from Mr. Muir, Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions.
Lady Candidates Defeated.
was defeated, it can truly be A Great Politician. said that the victory of Con-
By the defeat of the Right Hon servatism has been mainly at the Mr. Herbert Asquith thora expense of Liberalism. Evident- is closed the career of a man to iy the electorate realised that whom his country is much they had to choose between the indebted. He it was, who bore the great strain of the Promior- party standing for clear-cnt ship during the early days of tho issues in opposition to the prin-war and ho it was who, a ciples introduced by Labour, and Secretary of State for War, gave
the clarion call to the country The passionate love of an the party which tended to com-in 1914. A past Socrotary of Egyptian captain and Ethiopian
The Conservativo Mr. Harrison gained Bodmin from the notable promise. They have chosen; and State for the Home Depart-slave girl forms the basis of the Liberal Mr. Isaac Foot their decision has also indicated mont, a Chancellor of the Ex-story which runs through "Aida,”. The Liberal, Mre Corbett Aabby, and the Labouritos Mrs. in no uncertain fashion how the chequer for three years, a Mom. the opera which was produced by Barbara Gould and Miss Picton Turbervill, were defeated in
ber of Parliamout almost con the Italian Grand Opera Com- triangular fights at Watford, Northwich and Stroud, respectively. Labourites have failed to obtain tinuously since 1880, and the pany last evening and which The Conservative, Mrs. Middioton, was dofoated at Wansbeck popular sympathy. The innate loader of the Liberal Party for not with the succoss it fully by a Labourite. conservatism of the British fibre many yours. Mr. Asquith has deserved.
Mr. Lloyd George's son Gwilym was defeated in a triangular davated the main part of his life Alessandra Lashkova (the contest at Pembroke, which was gained by a Conservativo, has come uppermost in this trial to public servicos: his rise to slave girl) and Pinna Minotti
Mr. M. Thornton was ojocted at Tavistock by Major Konyon of established principlos against orainonce was almost meteoric (the king's daughter and un-Blaney, Conservative, in a straight tight, by a majority of 1,272, uncertain innovations.
and by his public life he fully requited lover of the captain) took The Labourite Miss Spurrell was defeated in a triangular fight boro out the high promise ha full advantage of the wide scope at Totness, which was gained by a Conservativo. The chief result of the eloc-tgave us a scholar and lawyer, offered by the thems for powerful The Labourite Mr. Shiels gained Edinburgh East in a trian- tion is its indication of the To-day he is an old man, 72 histrionics and scored a great gular fight, defeating the Liberal whip Mr. Hogge.
years of age, and it was inevit. success, notably. in the The Conservativo, Miss Laura. Sandoman, was defeated by a country's answer to soolalism able that his activity of late scene whero Aidh admits hor Labourite at Aberdeen North. Apart from whatever offent the should have been lessoned. Holova for Radames (Corbetta). The Conservative Colonel Crookshank gained. Borwick Had- famous Zinvoieff letter might bad lost that forvour and power Aida's interpretation of hor part dington in a triangular fight. havo had on the polling, we which marked him as England's and the pathos she infused into Mr. Maxton gained a majority against a Conservative at
most outstanding politician for her voice were a great triumph. Bridgeton of six thousand. observe in the returns the fact many years, but he passos out of Corbetta could have made more At Cathcart, Mr. E. MaoDonald, Conservative, polled 18,440 and
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that the bulk of the people are the active lists with a clean and than he did of his situation but Major J. P. Hay, Labour, 9,915. against such klons as nationalis-honourable record of public his rendition otherwise was all ation of industry, a capital lovy, changes, younger men come up
ondeavour. Time brings it that could be desired.
Ho met with instant approval Mr. Fleming, Conservative, gained Dumbarton from Labour, by and incautious acceptance of to displace the veterans, but there in his rendering of Heavenly a majority of 8,351. Gen. Seely fought a triangular contest at Boviot ovèrturos, And it is was novor a votoran who took Aida" tone of Caruso's favourite Northfolk East, which is a Conservative gain, whilst a Conservative obvious that the short term of into rotiroment with him moro songs) and in the final scene, gained Linlithgow from Mr. Shinweil office accorded to Labour has will find is hie. He witnessed their duet, a beantiful blending of majority of 17,265.
public goodwill than Mr. Asquith when be and Aida were ontoinbod, The Sinn Foiner, Mr. McKee, was defeated at Armagh by a failed to gain the confidance of some of the groatost victorion of volcas' was a delightful climax. the bulk of the electorate. The Liberalism, and it is sheer irony Soamuzzi, though sustaining a big gains of the previous olestion that the election at which he minor role, was again socorded should suffer a personal defosi an ovation and the concerted were largely due to Labour's has also witnessed the virtual items also found an appreciative promisos concerning unemploy-alimination of that onoo great audience. ment-promises which could not party. Surely, the ruthlessness The company this ovoning will
of tiine le inoontrovertible. be kopt. So much for that., Wo
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The Conservativo Mr. MacAndrew gained Ayr and Bute (Kilmarnock) from Labour, by a majority of eleven thousand..
The Conservativo Vice-Admiral Bir Henniker Hughan gained Galloway from the Liboral, Reveroned Mr. Barruan
A Labourite gained Motherwell from the Orangeman Mrj Ferguson
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