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ANNOUNCEMENT.
GENERAL ELECTIONS AT HOME TO-DAY
BRITAIN GOES TO THE POLLS
1900-1931 GENERAL ELECTIONS
Before
After Dinolution Election 1980 (Sep.) Tory... Tory 1906 (Jan.)Tory Liberal 1910 (Jan.).... Liberal Liberal Liberal 1910 (Dec.). Libera! 1918 (Dec.). Liberal Coalition 1922 (Nov.)... Coalition Tory
Tory..
1923 (Dec.) ...Tory Labour 1924 (Oct.)... Labour 1929 (May) ... Tory... Labour 1931 (Oct.) *National National Government resigned "Labour August and National Government formed by Ramany MacDonald, ·
General Election held October.
Parlia-
The thirty-seventh ment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the ninth of King George V. will be brought into being at the General Election to-day.
About £2,000,000 will change hands in the process of its birth, Its annual running costs will be about £800,000.'
The taxpayers will have to find some £360,000 of the cost The Marriage of Mr. Aubrey Chang of the General Election. This and Miss May Lee will take place represents payments to return- at the St. Paul's Church, Hong-ing officers and other costs paid. kong, on the 27th November, at 3 No invitations are being
by the Treasury, issued, but all friends are cor-
p.m.
dially invited to the ceremony and afterwards to the. reception which will be held at the Glou cester Hotel, Roof Garden.
The
The candidates will be res ponsible for spending, roughly, £750,000.
No. 10 DOWNING STREET.
-The Prime Minister's. Drawing Room traits a new occupant to-days
year before and the first year after the passing of the Corrupt Practices Act was over £700,000, The remaining £900,000 will
The highest total reached by be found by the political parties these Items in the last 50 years from their own coffers and from was, £1,295,782 in the first of generous donors who are pre-the-two-elections-of-1910-
with cash,
The next highest was in 1929, These estimates are neces- when the amount was £1,213, sarily approximate. If they 507.
Hongkong Telegraph.pared to back their political
are borne out the election will not be unduly expensive.
1,195 YEARS:
AGE OF
CABINET
Baldwin 58 Ramany Mac Hoare 55 Donald 69
Chamber-
Eden
38
61
Lain ....66. Thomas Hailsham 63 Cunliffe- London-
Lister 51 derry 57 Runciman 54 Simon €2 Malcolm
Mac-7
Halifax 54 Donald 34
Eyres
Zetland 59
Monsell 54
Godfrey
Elliot
47
Collins 60
Eustace
Oliver
Kingaley
Stanley 39
Ormsby.
Percy 48
Wood 54
Gore 50 Ernest
Brown SZ
TUHS mobilisation of men and Tmoney is a delicate and exacting business." Men are easier to collect than money.
Given two men of equal political ability and promise, the choice is more likely to fall on the aspirant who can pay £400 or more a year to local party funds than on the man who aims to live on his Parliamen- tary salary.
Yet some impecunious young men have a chance. They are This is accounted for, under given the forlorn hope seats such headings as a fee to the which have to be fought for agent, payment of clerks, ex- tactical reasons. It often pays penditure on printing, station- a party to run a candidate with- ery, public meetings, and com- out hope of success against a mittee rooms, together with a leader of another party so that sum-for-personal expenses. the opponent may be tied to his Many candidates return nothing own division, unable to go to the under this last head, and many aid of a colleague in danger. more only nominal sums.
More forlorn hopes were won at the last election than at any election in the last 80 years. There is not likely to be à repeti- tion this time.
For some trades a General Election is a harvest; for others
hall owners, house
THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 1935.
Mr. Maxton, the Left Wing One hundred years ago a con- BRITAIN POLLS
test in Yorkshire in which Lord Socialist, gets into Parliament Milton took part, cost each of more cheaply than any of the The British electorate goes to
614 other members. At the the parties £120,000. Other the polls to-day in an election THE General Election of 1931,
counties cost from £50,000 to last election he was entitled to which has been somewhat sud- which gave the National 90,000, "a tolerable sum," as a spend £840. His bill was £88. denly thrust upon the country. Government its record majority, contemporary commentator re- Candidates' expenses do not 2. loss. Printers, billposters. As to the outcome of the voting,
candidates' expenses marked, "for the privilege of, necessarily come out of their garages, the general view appears to be £654,105, and the Treasury eating a beef steak at St. own pockets. The wealthy agents, solicitors, taxi-drivers that the National Government spent £290,000,- What the Stephen's coffee house, and among them may meet the whole and car hirers all benefit. Even will receive a new lease of life, political parties spent in, pro- sleeping on the back benches of bill, Most
of the money for dressmakers find their business though with a somewhat reduced paganda is their secret.
increasing. the Commons continuously for others has to be found by their leaders and workers require new
because majority. When the Govern- Only on five occasions since seven years."
parties. A fairly common .nr- dresses ment went into power in 1931, it the Corrupt Practices Act of the
to wear on the plat secured
Both the cost of the privilege rangement among Conservatives amazingly large eighties put a control on the
forms. and the majority, close on five hundred, cascade of cash which drenched
the duration of its enjoy-
The City finds that, the im-
an
cost in
and
is for the Individual
proportions.
women
consequent on the overthrow of the hustings, have the expenses ment are now curtailed, Parlia party to share the cost in equal minence of an election creates the Labour Administration. | of the candidates and the State ment is now clected for five
Having secured no fewer than combined exceeded. £1,000,000, 287-seats-at-the-1920-election, The difference between-the-cost- the Labourites had their of those two items on the lasi strength reduced to 52 in the last Parliament.
won
· A
Since then, fow bye.
years.
か
功
4
M in the fortune big factor
is still. a
*
a feeling of uncertainty. Mar
The GENERAL Election im- kets become stagnant. poses-a-serious-drain-on-only consolation to the City is a party funds. When gamble on the outle
A
in sight the hat goes round.
parties. The party with plenty of cash starts with
The Socialists launch a fight- an initial elections, but, in the main, the NOTES OF THE DAY advantage in that it can devise ing fund publicly, the others more elaborate methods of put- collect their money without ting its policy before the shouting about it. electors.
Armies of candidates have George Bernard Shaw would nopi Candidates
are limited
by been marshalled and to-day a be G.B.S. if he did not disagree law in the amount of their ex- National Government champion with provalent opinion. Thus in
G.B.S. HAS HIS SAY
sentiment in
I
strength of the National Govern- ment has remained largely un- impaired. Political prophets are now forecasting a majority of between 100 and 170 for the Baldwin faction, with, Labour securing as many as 230 seats. The last-named forecast may turn out to be an over-estimate, but it has to be borne in mind that the actual votes secured by the Labourites in the Inst General Election were far greater than the number of seats held would indicate. None the less. it will be surprising if Labour wins back anything approaching two hundred, scata lost at the Inst election. The Government has shown considerable general- ship in appealing to the country at this juncture, when all parties are at least united on the ques- tion of upholding the principles on which the League of Nations stands. There have been sug-. gestions in Opposition circles that Mr. Baldwin and his follow ers, taking advantage of this fact, have exploited the 'inter- national situation by deciding on an election at this tinie. But thero is a further point to be kept in mind, namely, that the Government would naturally like n definito wssurance from the dectorate that its policies in the present Juncture are in line with national thought. No such as- surance could be given by put-| Ling the matter to the vote in the Parliament whose life has Baldwin and his advisers have just ended, for the simple reason' taken careful stock of the situa- that the House of Commons as tion and are confident of their then constituted was elected as ability to secure a fresh vote of far back as 1931. The issue confidence. Nothing is sure in could be decided if there wore British elections, for which machinery for holding a referen- reason it would be unwise to be dum on the question, but no such too precise in forecasting the muchinory exists. From some probabilities. None the less, angles, it is unfortunate that the there are grounds for thinking Government should put its that the National Government atrength to the test in the midst will once again win the day.. of a big international crisis, but Any other, result would be little It may be assumed that Mr. short of calamitous,
the Ethiopian controversy he takes penditure during the actual con- is in practically every one of the a line of his own. Ho hau no test. Roughly, it takes £700 to 615 fights. The total nomina- the matter. Ho put M.P. after the name of a tions for National Government thinks that to make any part of Conservative and £450 for a supporters include 512 Conser- the globe available for human Socialist. The legal maximum vatives, 44 National Liberals, 20 habitation and social development expenditure permitted to a can- National Labour and six others. at any higher level than that of didate is 6d. per elector in coun- The Socialists have well over the birds and beasts, the first
550 placed.
material necessity is a well engi-ties, and 5d. in boroughs, neered and policed main road, with water supplies from artificial wells, and refuelling stations. Ancient Rome anw to that, like- wise all the great empire-making nations. If the ferocious natives so much the worse for the natives, tried to hinder the road-makers, oven to their extermination. This opening-up to civilisation has hitherto been done by unilateral action. Now it should be done by concerted action, that
İB, by the League of Nations. But, un- fortunately, the League is not! Bernard Shaw is on the side equipped for such work. Mr. of the road engineers and will not tolerate any attack on our civilisa-
of
lon. Rather than have 'that ho would drop the Geneva Council down the crater of Vesuvius. Ho has nothing to say of the sanctity International· contracts or tion. But then, Mr. Bernard Shaw security against war by co-opera- is never troubled by the qualms and doubts from which losser meni suffer. He sees one point-his own-and makes straight for it, ignoring all others.
"Now listen, Boggs, there's no use trying to fguns what Napoleon or somebody would do about this shipment of
tomato juice.”
The Very Idea!
MORE POSTSCRIPTS
Jokes-Old And New- From The Scrapbook
Edited By Eddio Daddy, did the Crusaders have
"No."
bombs"
"Had they any aeropinnes?".
"No."
"Or machine-guns?"
"Is that why they didn't boat the Saracens 7
"I
Buppose so."
"Can't you beat natives unless you have aeroplanes and things, daddy?" "Run along, now, dear, I'm busy."
*
Sanctions ?
In 181 BC. Judas Maccabens sent, ambassadors to Rome to propose u treaty of alliance. The Senate ac- ected, and. both sides covenanted, if either of them were attacked, not to help the aggressor with "victuals, weapons, money or ships" (1 Mis cabers, viii, 10-28.)
Shot At Dawn
The Nazi Government look upon the sharp rise in the British Empire birth-rate-quintuplets in Canada, quadruplets in New Zealand, and
and now quadruplets in London-as a A chal- lenge, almost an set of
I am reminded of the
but patriotie German couple who could not afford a perambulator. The husband, however, worked in a
he
parambulator factory. Gradually managed to convey to his home Bulelent number of apare parts,
One evening he settled down, in his attle, to the task of assembling a perambulator. After a few hours he emerged looking hot and exasperated.
"No matter how I fit it together,' he said to his wife, "the thing always turns out to be a machine-gun."
Howlars
A fort is a place to put men in.
A fortress is a place to put women
in.
་་
Masculino, man; feminine, woman -neuter, corpse.
Tarzan is a short name for the
American flag. Its full name is: Tarzan stripes.
A lock-out is a man who comes home too late.