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TELEGRAPH. - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1935.
GENERAL ELECTIONS AT HOME TO-DAY
BRITAIN GOES TO THE POLLS
1900-1931 GENERAL ELECTIONS
Coalition
Before After Dissolution Election 1900 (Sep.)... Tory ...
Tory 1906 (Jan.)
Liberal Liberal 1910 (Jah.) 1910 (Dec.) Liberal Libera
Liberai 1918 (Dec.) 1922 (Nov.)
Coalition Tory 1923 (Des.)...
Tory... Labour Labour Tory 1924 (Oct.) 1929 (May)... Tory... Labour 193) (Oct.) "National National *Labour Government resigned August and National Government formed by Ramsay MacDonald. General Election held October.
The thirty-seventh Parlia 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' Tel. 27778/9. hands in the process of its birth. Its annual running costs will be SORAMENTAS A about £800,000.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Marriage of Mr. Aubrey Chang and Miss May Lee will take place at the St. Paul's Church, Hong kong, on the 27th Dm.
No invite Navember, an
are being issued, but all, friends are
ear-
The taxpayers will have to find some £350,000 of the cost of the General Election. This represents payments to return- ing officers and other costs paid by the Treasury.
and afterwards to the reception | £750,000... which will be held at the Glou- rester Hotel, Roof Garden.
The
The candidates will be res- dially invited to the ceremony -ponsible for spending, roughly, The remaining 2000.000 will be found by the political parties from their own collers and from
donors who are pre generous pared to back their political
These estimates are sarily approximate. If they are borne out the election will not be unduly expensive.
Hongkong Telegraph. Faith with cash.
THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 1985.
A
THE
and
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neces-
No. 10 DOWNING STREET.
The Prime Minister'a Drawing Room awaits ne veenpant to-day.
year before and the first year after the passing of the Corrupt Practices Act was over £700,000. The highest total reached by these items in the last 50 years was £1,295,782 in the first of the two elections of 1910.
The next highest was in 1929. when the amount was £1.213. 507.
One hundred years ago a con- test in Yorkshire in which Lord Milton took part, cost each of the parties £120,000.
the Treasury eating a beef steak at
1,195 YEARS: AGE OF
CABINET
Baldwin 58 Ramsay Mac Hoare 55 Donald 69
Chamber: Eden
lain
66
Thomas
Hailsham 63 Cunliffe-
London.
Lister
dorry 57 Runciman 54 Simon 62
Malcolm
Monsell 54
47
Mac-
•Halifax. 54
Donald 34
Eyres
Zotland Godfrey
59
Elliot.
Collins
60
Oliver
Stanley 39
Ormsby-
Eustaco
Percy 48 Kingsley
Wood 54
Gore 50 *Ernest
Brown 52
THIS mobilisation of men and
THIS
money is a delicate and Men are exueling business. 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 than on the man who funds nims 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.
St. own
The
wealthy
More forlorn hopes were won Mr. Maxion, the Left Wing at the last election than at any
BRITAIN POLLS
Socialist, gets into Parliament election in the last 30 years. more cheaply than any of the There is not likely to be a repeti- 614 other members. At the tion this time. Other The British electorate goes to
For
a General some trades last election he was entitled to the polls to-day in an election General Election of 1931; counties cost from £50,000 to
Election is a harvest; for others which has been somewhat sud-
which gave the National £90,000, "a tolerable sum," as a spend £840. His bill was £88. # loss, Printers, billposters.
Candidates' expenses do not
house denly thrust upon the country. Government its record majority, contemporary commentator re- As to the outcome of the voting, cost in candidates' expenses marked, "for the privilege of necessarily come out of their garages, hall owners,
agents, solicitors, taxi-drivers pockets. the, general view appears to be £654,105. 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 dressmakers find their business because svomen will receive a new lease of life, political parties spent in pro- sleeping on the back benches of bill. Most of the money for increasing though with a somewhat reduced paganda is their secret.
the Commons continuously for others has to be found by their leaders and workers require new parties. A fairly common ar- Only on five becasions since seven years."
the plat- majority. When the Govern
forms. ment went into power in 1931, it the Corrupt Practices Act of the secured an amazingly large eighties put a control on the
The City finds that the im- majority, close on five hundred, cascade of cash which drenched
minence of an election creates consequent on the overthrow of the hustings, have the expenses ment is now elected for ave
a feeling of uncertainty. Mar- The the Labour Administration, of the candidates and the State
kets become stagnant. Having secured no fewer than combined exceeded £1,000,000. 287 seats at the 1929 election,The difference between the cost
only consolation to the City is a
the
fight is ganille on the results. Labourites
their of those two items on the last had strength reduced to 52 in the last Parliament. Since then, they have won a few bye-
Both the cost of the privilege the duration of its enjoy- Parlia ment are now curtailed.
a
years,
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rangement among Conservatives dresses to wear on is for the individual and the
party to share the cost in equid proportions.
"
GENERAL Election in ONEY is still a big factor
-poses serious drain on party funds. When a in the fortunes of political in sight the hat goes round. parties. The party with plenty
elections, but, in the main, the NOTES OF THE DAY advantage in that it can devise ing fund publicly,
strength of the National Govern-
. Candidates
are
of cash starts with an initial. The Socialists, launch a fight- the others their money without more elaborate methods of put- collect ting its policy before the shouting about it. ment has remained largely un-C.B.S. HAS HIS SAY
Jelcctors.
Armies of candidates have impaired. Political prophets are George Bernard Shaw would noti
limited by been marshalled and to-day a now forecasting a majority of be G.B.S. if he did not disagree law in the amount of their ex- National Government champion between 100 and 170 for the with prevalent opinion. Thus in Baldwin faction, with Labour, the Ethiopian controversy he takes penditure during the actual con- is in practically every one of the He has no test. Roughly, it takes £700 to 615 fights. The total nomina- securing, as many as 230 seats. a fine of his own. The Inst-named forecast may
sentiment in the matter. He put M.P. after the name of a tions for National Government turn out to be an over-estimate,
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 but it has to be borne in mind
habitation and social development expenditure permitted to a can- National Labour and six others. that the actual votes, secured by
at any higher level than that of didate is 6d. per elector in coun- The Socialists have
well over the Labourites in the last
the birds and beasts, the first
550 placed. General Election were for material necessity is a well engi-ties, and 5d. in boroughs. greater than the number of negred and policed main road, seats held would indicate, with water supplies from artificial None the less. it will be wells, and refuelling stations. surprising if Labour wins
Ancient. Rome saw to that, like- wise all the great empire-ninking back anything approaching
nations. If the ferocious natives Lwo hundred sents lost at the
tried to hinder the road-makers, lust election. The Government
so much the worse for the natives, has shown considerable general- aven to their extermination. This ship in appealing to the country opening-up Lo civilisation has at this juncture, when all partles hitherto been done by unilateral jare at least united on the ques- action. Now it should be done by action, that is, by tion of upholding the principles concerted Jon which the League of Nations
the League of Nations. But, uns stands. There have been sug- equipped
fortunately, the League is not For stteh work. Mr. gestions in Opposition circles Bernard Shaw is on the side that Mr. Baldwin and his follow of the road engineers, and will not ers, taking advantage of this tolerate any attack on our civilisa- fact, have. exploited the inter- tion. Rather than have that he national situation by deciding on
would drop the Genova Council down the crater of. Vesuvius. He fan election at this time. But there is a further point to be
has nothing to any of the sanctity of international contracts or kept in mind, namely, that the
security against war by co-opera- Government would naturally like
tion. But then. Mr. Bernard Shaw a definite assurance from, the is never troubled by the qualms electorate that its policies in the and doubts from which lesser men present juncture are in line with suffer. He sees one point-hin national thought. No such ́`· 48-
own and makes straight for it, surance could be given by put- ignoring all others. ting the matter to the vote in the Parliament whose life has just ended, for the simple reason that the House of Commons as then constituted was elected as far back as 1981. The issue could be decided if there were machinery for holding a referen- dum on the question, but no such machinery exists. From some angles, it is unfortunate that the Government should put Its strength to the test in the midst of a big international crisis, but SSSSSSNESS it may be assumed that. Br.
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Baldwin and his advisers have taken careful stock of the situa- tion and are confident of their ability to secure a fresh vote of confidence. Nothing is sure in British elections, for which reason it would be unwise to be too precise in forecasting the probabilities. None the less, there are grounds for thinking that the National Government will once again win the day. Any other result would be little short of calamitous,
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Edited By Eddio "Daddy, did the Crusaders hove
"No."
bomba?"
"Had they any neroplanes?" "NO"
"Or machine-guns?"
"No."
"Is that why they didn't bent the Saracens
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In 101 BC. Judas Marcalena sent ambassadors to Rome to propone treaty of alliance The Senate ac cepted, and bath sides covenanted, if either of them were attacked, not to help the aggressor with "victuale, weapons, money or ships" (1 Muck“- cabees, viii., 19-29)
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The Nazi Government look upon the sharp riso in the British Empire birth rate quintuplets
In Canada, quadruplets in New Zealand, and now quadruplets in London-ns n chat- lenge, almost an act of agression.
Inn reminded of the impoverished" but patriotic German couple who could not afford a perambulator,
The husband, however, worked in ..
perambulator
tas Jactory, Gradually ho
his managed to convey to home a sufflelent number of spare parts.
In his
One evening he settled down, attle, to the tank 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,"
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A fort in a place to put mon in.. A fortress is a place to put women in..
"Masculine, man; feminine, woman;. neuter, corpse.
Tarzan is a short name for the American flag. Its full name is Tarzan stripes.
„A lock-ouí l8,a man who comes home too Inte.