1937-04-30 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 30, 1937.

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THREE BYE-ELECTION RESULTS Labour Gains One Seat: No Changes In Other Two

Steady Growth Of Socialist Vote

London, To-ady.

The National Government yesterday retained the seats of Birmingham West and Stalybridge but lost Wandsworth Central to Labour in three by- elections.

AT BIRMINGHAM WEST, THE SEAT BEING RENDERED VACANT BY THE DEATH OF SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, MR. HOGGS (CON.) OBTAINED A MAJORITY OF 2,920 OVER

·HIS LABOUR OPPONENT, COMPARED WITH THE LATE SIR AUSTEN'S MAJORITY OF 7,371 AT THE GENERAL ELECTION. AT STALYBRIDGE, MR. TREVOR COX (CON.) FOUGHT A NARROW CONTEST WITH THE LABOUR` CANDIDATE, WIN- NING BY THE SMALL MARGIN OF 334. AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, MR. PHILIP DUNNE, WHO HAS RESIGNED OWING TO ILL HEALTH, THE CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY WAS 5,073.

Wandsworth Central was а Labour gain. At the General Election the Conservative candid- ate, Sir Henry Jackson, whose death rendered the by-election necessary, had a majority of 4,323.

Yesterday Labour turned this de- ficit into a gain of 485 over the Conservative candidate.

Voting was as follows;

BIRMINGHAM WEST

Mr. Hoggs (Con)

Mr. Crossman (Lab)

Conservative majority.

12,552 9,632 2,920

No change.

Labour Vote up Conservative vote down

STALYBRIDGE

Montreux Brightens

FRENCH DELEGATE

500 ister.

4,000

Mr. Trevor Cox (Nat. Con). 21,901 Rev. Gordon Lang (Lab) 21,567

Nat. Conservative major-

ity

334

No change.

Labour vote up

Conservative vote down

1,000 3,500

WANDSWORTH CENTRAL........

RETURNS

Sunken Ferry Shifted

Early salvage of the ferry "Night Star" sunk alongside wharf a fortnight ago, loomed last night when, after more than ten days of effort, the vessel was lifted out of the mud in which she had settled and moved out to a position where completion of the salvage task will be sim- plified.

HUGE BLAZE IN MANILA

Manila, To-day,

No casualties were suffered in last night's fire, which broke out in the Escolta, Manila's main street andd thrilled hundreds of cinema goers who were leaving the theatres.

The damage done was consider- able, however, and is estimated at Kш 500,000 pesos.

FIVE R.A.F.. MEN KILLED

BOMBERS COLLIDE IN MID-AIR

London, To-day. Five Royal Air Force men were killed yesterday when two R.A.F. bombers collided in mid-air,

The accident occurred while three machines were flying in formation near Methwold, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border.

A number of the best-known shops and stores in the down-town district were gutted.Reuter.

BELGIUM FOR BELGIANS Guiding Own Policy In Future

SPAAK STATEMENT

Brussels, To-day. “Belgian policy will be purely

Belgium, he said, had no

The propellor of one plane Belgian in future," declared the caught the tail of the leading ma- Foreign Minister, M. Spaak, in the |chine, and both machines fell to Chamber yesterday.

inter- ests outside her frontiers and would The other plane fell partly into not participate in a future war un- the River Whiffey-Reuter.

less her *Own frontiers were violated.

earth, one of them bursting into flames.

serious condition.

器

aBelgium would solve independently

lof foreign aid:-Trans-Ocean.

Montreux, To-day. The atmosphere of the capitu- lations conference has percepti-

The Franco-British declaration bly brightened upon the return

releasing Belgium from her Locarno. of the French delegate, M. Detas-

Ko Wai, a married woman, resid-obligations rendered General Staff- san, and the conference he had ing at No. 35b, Wellington Street, talks superfluous. with the Egyptian Finance Min-attempted to end her life yesterday Defence of the country wes

by jumping from the second floor. purely technical question which It is announced that complete She was admitted to G.CH. in agreement has reached on all out- standing points, the details of which Iwill be communicated to the confer- ence to-day enable the latter to con- clude the drafting of the general çon- vention and judicial recorganisation. In the meantime, the Egyptian delegates have agreed to insertion of a clause in the final pact promising sympathetic consideration of claims of of judges, lawyers and officials the Mixed Courts when they retired.

Major H. L. Nathan (Lab) 12,406-Reuter.

Mr. Roland Jennings

TRAVEL

(Con)

11,921

Labour majority

485

Labour gain.

Labour vote up

2,000

Conservative vote down

2,700

Reuter.

NORMAN HAPGOOD PASSES AWAY

Noted American Journalist

PACKARD WORKS

ELECTION

Union To Represent Employees

Detroit, To-day."

New York, To-day.

The death has occurred at the age of 69 of Norman Hapgood, the well-known American editor.

and author.

The late Mr. Hapgood had been editor of Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly and Hearst's International Magazine.

Among his publications were volu- The Union of Automobile Work- ers has won the right to represent mes on literary statesmen, George all the Packard Motor Company's Washington and Abraham Lincoln. employees, including non-union mem- bers, by a vote of over four to one in an election conducted by the Na-

tional Labour Relations Board.

It was the first election held in

a motor-car factory since enactment

of the Wagner Act, which, inter

Reuter

Mongol-Manchu Conference

Moscow, To-day.

Agreement is understood to have

alia, provides for this medium for been reached to resume the Mongol- determining sole bargaining rights. Manchu conference at Manchuli on

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May 15-Reuter.

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