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CABLES.

EARLIER CABERS.

(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENOT.}

GERMAN BAST AFRICA.

RECHRISTENED BY COLONIAL OFFICE.

LONDON, January 30th.

The Colonial Office announce that it has been decided that German East Africa

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FAR EASTERN CABLE)

NEWS.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

EX-PRESİDENT FENG KUO- CHANG'S FUNERAL.

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CANTON NEWB

February 3rd

·A FEESH DISFUSE

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8

1940.

ALLENBY'S HEROES. MOUNT OF OLIVES MEMORIAL. In October, 1917, Field-Marshal Vis

FIRMER BULE IN IRELAND

·ROYAL INDIAN MABINE DENUNCIATION BY SINN FEIN,

AOINDERELLA SERVICE. It is atated that a fresh dispute has

The special correspondent of the

Uno fighting service has been neglooted arisen between the Governments of Canning Post writes from Dublin: count Allenby gave instructions that so far in the general revision of condi ton, and Macao owing to the signing of have taken place in Ireland recently, in of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. The result is that to-day there exists, the Owing to the number of outrages which designs should be invited from members tions of pay-the Royal Indian Marina. a document by the Second Offices in car the commission of which motor-cars, were of any rank, for a Palestine memorial to curious anomaly that a commander mand of the ganbast Lu Lung, who, it is alleged, was forced to sign it. sunboat was lying in Ngan Hang within Chinese limits when, it is reported, the

use, who boarded her..

The

feller comrades, to be erected on the M. (ranking equal to a lieutenant fount of Olives. The designs selected by colonel in the Army gets less pay than Lord Allanby was that submitted by Mr. Ons may be confent that it is only a second lieutenant in the Indian Army

vice to be called to the attention of the India Office and of Parliament for prompt remedy to follow.

shall provisionally be re-named Tangan-, reversed, preceded the estafalque, ́in gunboat was surrounded by the Porta a permit. A photograph of the holder W. J. Palmer Jones, of 11, Buckingham- necessary for the conditions of this sor

yika Territory.

The funeral of General Feng Kuo- chang, Ex-President, this morning was most impressive. Troops, with arms

front of which was carried à framed NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT | photograb of the deceased. President

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE CARRIED. The female mourners followed

Twenty-five pavilions ware erected en Pants, January 30th, The Chamber of Deputies, after debat route to the railway station, whence the remains were conveyed to Hochfenfu by ing the general policy, passed a vote of

AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN MISSIONS.

confidence in the Government by 510 votes rail. Yellow-robed Lamaists and Tacists ionaries in the South-West Provinces lights to stop, the driver and occupanting the movement known, and at the same less than half a century ago, when the

to 70.

M. PICHON RETURNS TO

JOURNALISM. »

PARIS, January 29th,"

conducted the funeral rites en route.

A feature of the procession was the ex- President's black charger, led by soldier,

There were numerous wreaths, and also artificial sheaves of grain?”

[BY COURTESY OF THE CHINA MAIL"]

A PORTUGUESE CHAMBER OF

COMMERCE.

A Havas message states: M. Stephen Pichon has resumed bis Journalistic labours as editor of the Petit -Journal. It is recalled that M. Pichon began his newspaper career under M. Clemenceau's auspices, on Justice ·M.

SHANGHAI, February 3rd. Pichon's" return to his old profession is On the eve of the departure for the signalised by his election to the Presi-homeland of the Portuguese Consal, Bency of the Parisian Press Association.

valedictory luncheon was given by the

used the Government has found it seen tial to put into force regulations making of a motorcar or motor-cycle abbuld have it necessary that every owner and driver

has to be attached to each permit. Should a car be found for which no permit has street, Adelphi, who was at the time an The Administrative Council of the not), it may be seized by the police. In

been obtained (whether being used or officer of the Egyptian Labour Corps. Military Government has ordered that structions have been given to the constarial is £18,000, and of this sum £11,000 The estimated total cost of the memo the regulations governing the treatment day or night to carry this order into and men of the Egyptian Expeditionary Country, though their splendid work is bulary to stop motorists on the roads by has already been contributed by officers very well-know service in the Home The Royal Indian Marine are not a and disposal of properties belonging to effect. German and Austrian Missions and miser and drivers are notified that if work of building well in hand by the end familiar enough to troops who have serve

Force alone. It is desired to have the any car or cycle is halted, or warned by of the year, and with the object of maked in India. They came into existence have been modified in view of the Peking may incur grave risks by neglecting to time giving a realistic idea of the Indian Navy was abolished. (Our naval Government's declaration of peace with present imply imprisonment or possibly to take part in providing it, a model policy was, then opposed to the idea of obey the signals. The grave risks" at posed structure to those who may wish Austria and Germany. These properties are, the police being directed not to of the memorial has been made by Mr. any autonomous national fleets within the are to be made over to the misionaries. resort to the use of firearms.

In districts where the order. is not morial Committee is General Sir W-formed to carry out in Indian waters

Palliser. THE CAPTURED; LÀLNCHES. -

The Chairman of the Me Empire.) The Royal Indian Marine was obeyed, special arrangements are to be Western, who In regard to the capture of the 5-steam made to hold up all motor traffic on the General to Lord Allenby, and the London most of the work that had hitherto been

was Deputy Adjutant- launches with large quantities of rice by various roads in turn by the erection of arrangements are in the hands of Major done by the Indian Navy. It has in its the Commander of the Bocca Tigris, it is Whon necessary troops will co-operate Adjutant-General. The bankers of the fleet troopships and despatch vessels, and barriers and the exhibition of lights. Norman Contes, who was his assistant atated that a large quantity of ammumi- with the police. Permita are to be re fand are the National Provincial Bank undertakes transport work, the care of tion, arms, and several machine-guns fused to persons who, in the opinion of Savoy-court, Strand, and contributing Coast lights, the patrol of rivers in were also found on the launches. There cars or allow them to be used for illegal tine Memorial Fund."

the authorities, are likely to use their should be sent to them marked "Palma, the protection of the island were, also, more than 200 soldiers on purposes, or who are known to be sup

pénal settlements, etc. board who have been placed under porters of the Sinn Fein movement.

ABDUOUS CONDITTONE. arrest.

It would be hard to imagine any Im On these regulations-as reasonable as the buildings in the neighbourhood, and work are more consistently arduous and The design is based on the features of perial Service in which the conditions of RAILWAY AFFAIRS

they are requisite in the state of the though not Oriental is of a character suf- The Canton Samshui Railway Com-tions of which even Ireland is capable bold effect in its position on the highest carried on constantly in the sultry heat

disagreeable country one of the most absurd agit ficiently striking to have a remarkably are not floating palaces; the messes are Tho, chips of the R.I.M. as a rule very small; the work has to be

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SINN FIN' OUTCRY.

THE DESIGN.

PARIS MUNICIPAL COUNCIL Portuguese community. An interesting Pany is to begin" "work on the construc- has been based. The new motor order is point in Palestine. The desire has been of the Indian coast and rivers there is scheme was outlined for the establishmenttion of the branch line from Fatahan to denounced by the Sinn Feizers and their to avoid giving, the building any reli of a Portuguese Chamber of Commere Chanchun. A motor road is to be built with the liberty of the subject and the idea was to provide a memorial in which to sell on a hill station to look forward

IN LONDON.

FABIS, January 29th. A Havas message states:- Headed by its president a party of mem bers of the Paris Municipal Council arrived yesterday in London as guesta’of

London County Council.

FRENCH MINISTERS

BELGIAN KING

MEET

PARIS, January 29th

A Havas messige states:- Ypres, Dixmuda, Furnes and Neuport

for steamers direct between Portugal and the Far East, the formation of a bank and insurance company, etc. The war has created a stimulus to Portuguese aspire tions.

CHINESE GENERAL SHOT.

SHANGHAI, February 3rd. General Tsang Mang-kia, who was shot by an unknown assailant in the French concession on Thursday, died in hospital

suporters in the Press as an interference gious character-Lord Allenby's main

no

shui) passing through Lansack and other dustryd officially aimed at is that of the Holy Land might find a worthy record and children, of course, cannot live on from Fatshan to Koonshan (near Sam-industries of the country.. The only "in-relatives and friends, who travel in the up an establishment on shore; his wife

the EI.M. Further, & married officer must keep native towns, where many of the silk black gang with whom outrage is its of the beroic dead, and at the same time his ship. When an officer has a turn of factories are situated. The road will be everyday occupation and murder its too a place of rest in which they could par duty on shore in one of the ports, his about 15 miles long, and it is estimated frequent recreation. that it will cost about $400,000.

Attem Iudica tribute to their noble.devotion and shore allowance is cat very fine-five rously ineffectiv", a being made to link patrictiam, Ta THE SHANGHAI CONFERENCE,

up all the Trade Unions in a general

rupees a day, except in Bombay, when the trade paralyis strike, with the object of bringing about stone quarried in the vicinity of Jerur most officers, of course, the bulk

The memorial is to be of marble and hore allowance is ten rupees a day. But

their

service is

at sca

The Military Government, as advised by Tong Kai-yew, the Tuchun of Yunnan, has telegrtphed to the Premier in Pek- ing stating that the Southerners will cancel all their demands if the Shanghai and that the Peking Government should Colference is resumed without delay, revoke the Sino-Japanese military agree Teng Shui-, and Wong Yap-tong the delegations, respectively, are under

of

Dublin, the centre of the agitation, stiu f salem, and the colour will be a beautiful. The rates of pay are, to put it baldly,

the Belgian towns associated with the 9 Saturday. He was formerly a revol ment. A Shangbai report states that prepared to put up with the slight in colonnade, also of marble, from which the service) 600 rupees. To translate this tragedy of the great war were decorated Monary general in Anbui and was pro chief of the Southern and Northern peace one of the most effective rat-traps yet apart for tablets to be elected bearing Power in England, the rupec, may be yesterday by M. Poincare. An importinminent during the revolation. The mur direct negotiations for the resumption of the Chick Secretary's declaration that he front of the main entrance, built into thng translating his pay into English

polítical menting occurred between Merwe due to political motives No Poincare and M. Millerand, and Marshal of the murderer has been discovered.

Foch, King Albert, the Belginn. fremier and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

U.S.A. AND “MEXICO..

KESIGNATION OF WELL-KNOWN DIPLOMAT.

WASHINGTON, January 28th Mr. Fletcher, the United States Ambas sador to Mexico, has resigned. He stated that this was owing to the impossibility of negotiating satisfactorily any longer the important issues with Carranza. It may be recalled that Mr. Fletcher return- ed to the United States a year ago, sinée when Mr. G. T. Tummerlin has been United States Charge d'Affaires

Maxico,

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

TO ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA AT END OF MAY,

MELBOURNE, January 31st

the third week of May.

in

I

A SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.

BHANGHAI, February 3rd. An awful tragedy was witnessed in broad daylight in the French concession. A Chinese, about thirty years of age, fell on to the roadway from the second storey of the great World building. Death was instantaneous. His identity has not been established, and it is not known whether it was a suicida case or an accident.

the Shanghai Conference.

NORTH LONDON BANK RAID

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NIGGARDLY PAZ.

cats and drinks, and goes about its or have a diameter of six hundred yards, the dignity of the King's commission. dinery business in spite of the disincling and the memorial will stand clear of the A cadet gets 125 rupees a month, a sub- shade of purple. The marble base will:

Buch

as to make it impossible to keep up. tion of some of its motor drivers to be circumstance by about twenty yards Lieutenant up to 150 rupees, a lieutenant country, the orden is being accepted with broken column, of solid marble. Bur up to 375 rupees, junior commander photographed. As for the rest of the The central feature will be the familiar up to 275 rupees, a lieutenant-commander equanimity Loyalists everywhere are rounding this at its bees is an open 100 rupees, convenience it involves, recognising it as entry can be made into small rooms wet pay into ita

captain the highest rank in real equivalent in parchasing devised. They are much heartened by the engraved names of the fallen. In counted as worth about one shilling. ha po intention of withdrawing it the column, is a seulputer group repre values, begins with £65 month, and at A commissioned officer in the RIM. MR. RIBESILA BIG KISTARE senting the. Hessenger of Peace, and the Firm and resolute rala is the one and winged figure of Victory, and by the side top of the tree geta 200 per month- the biggest mistakes ever, made of of the sculpture is an entrance to allest satisfy many mechanics working, not. In a wage which would not in these days MANAGER SHOT AT Za prominent Irishman to me,"

said Room, in which the permanent record of a tropical climate, but in England. was the memorial, the archive of the ci by Mr. Birrell when he dropped the Peace pain, and other valuable documents will There was a sensational incident at the reservation Act, which prohibited the be deposited. Wood-green branch of Barclays Bank on unportation of arms. That was the be

The extreme niggardliness of the RI.M December 12th, Mr. Morgan. the mana Binning of all the recent trouble. At rial will be tastefully laid out, and well parison with Indian Army pay, com The grounds surrounding the memo Pay can be further illustrated by com ger, being fired at-it is alleged-by arms, and as a result we have had thir well-dressed man who was driven up to teen years' rotten rule."

once the country was flooded with fire kept.

mander in the R.I.M. (equal to lien- tenant-colonel in the Army). gets 400 the premises in a taxicab. Clerks closed with the assailant, who was arrested.

On the very day that Mr. Macpherson

rupees a month; a second liantenant in Wood-green, recently residing at Truro there had been a relaxation of the order many the so-called Count's Club Indian Army (who is below him in grade)- the Indian Army gets 495 rupees's month. The man is stated to be a native of made his statement the House it wi

Δ captain in the R.I.M. gets 600 rupees announced by the Sun Fein Preas that,

The latest Conservative creation in Ger- month a lieutenant-colonel in the road. "about ten minutes walk from the so far as it related to motor lorries (rafenklub). "The club, the president sets 1,150 rupees a month bank, but has been in Canada for some Nothing was further from the truth. considerable funds at its disposal, which time, and has a wife and children there Vehicles over three tons never were in will be primarily used to influenos the of which is Count Behr Behrendorf, has The bank is in the busy main thoroughluded in the order.

It is true that not very many people fare adjoining the parish church of St

Owners were not Press in 's Monarchist sense,

are affected: all told, the commissioned Michael, at the top of that portion of quite certain on the point at first, brit High-road known de Jolly Butchers-hill reference to the Law Officers of the ed Baltic troops, a report in the Freiheitan 900. But the work they do is of the Describing the behaviour of the return-ranks of the R.I.M. do not number more gardens. At about 3.15. a well-dressed Theobs, and other big firms gave rise to entry into Doeberitz camp last Friday they with great ability. During It is a detached building faced by publishing of their lorries by Messrs. Guinness.

Crown made it leer. Hence the run-says-

greatest importance, and is, by common mtn alighted from a taxicab. He carried the mistaken Impression, that there had bearing, the old Imperial fags, singaf value not only in trooping work but with The Baltic adventurers made their sent, carried on with great devotion ed during the war in respect of salvage portmanteau, and went hurriedly to the

great war the R.I.M. showed its neglected in the time of peace. Since the manager. The report of a revolver was armistice more than 76,000 tens of tins, heard directly, Mr. Lewin, thief cashier,

Dir im Siegerkranz, and accompanied Water Trasport in Mesopotamia. paper, clothing, bottles, and other kinds picked as the money scales and struck

by some Russian women. Several members of inorganic waste have been saved at the assailant, felling him to the door.

Under war conditions its officers, who home and overseas, while, in addition these 78,000 tons, the total sales and The other clerks rushed round the coun- shipments of inorganic waste exceedster to the public side and overpowered $2,500,000 in value. The sales of kitchen the man after a severe struggle The

LI ARMY: BALVAGE,

LESSONS OF WAR APPLIED IN PEACE TIME.:

A CLUB OF COUNTS.”

to

IMPORTANT DUTIES.

to be addressed to all commands at home The Army Council has caused a letter and abroad, urging that the lessons learn- and economies in general must not be bank entrance and asked to see the ƒ begri.in fimb down on the part of the Deutschland, veber Alles' and Heil the foyal Engineers and the Inland

to

Pauthorities

IGNORANCE IN ENGLAND.

government by constitutional means im cards when some twenty to twenty live of Navy, of the Royal Engineers, or of the The Sinn Feiners have set out to make of the Public Security policy were sitting became temporarily, officers of the Royal pojed in order to attain that the returned soldiers, wearing Russian inland Water Transport, had no griev Ireland to the same condition as Russia" solvers, entered, and began to make fun object they are prepared to reduce cockades and,

carrying ani to make fun temporary employment were adequate, ance, because pay and allowances for this Now

peace they have gone back to

it

Mr. Hughes has announced that the refuse in the home commands in 1918 taxi driver, who had been requested by that is not my statement; it is their of the Reichswehr soldiers. A sergeant conditions which are absolutely impo Prince of Wales arrives in Australis in commands the sale of waste paper alone police, and the clerks also telephoned to over handy," said a Clare landlord grievously mishandled and thrown out view, An officer in the R.1.M. now, even realised £496,470, while in one of these his fare to wait, was asked to fetch the own declaraion. "I always have a re of the Tatter objected, whereupon he was sible from a decent livelihood point of since the armistice has yielded more than the police station. Officers were 300m ation, and I will endeavour to give these came back, and again provoked the £25,000. Bales of animals for meat and the bank, and conveyed the man to Wood

with whom was discussing the situa The Baltic party then went Public Service, has not a living wage" by-products of animals at home and green, Police Station.

he reaches the highest geutry a warm reception if they voalure Security police, and further fighting fol- marry and bring up a family.

in the overseas since the armistice have amount ed in value to £1,160,000.

On arrival at the station the man re to trouble us. The unfortunate part of lowed. On Sunday the Baltic soldiers, Whilst moved a false moustache. He gave his the business is that some of our friends appeared once more with hand-grenades

The remedy a simple. It is to apply to the RLM

same conditions of outnumbered, caused no further trouble.

BOLSHEVIK AGENT'S CLAIM. STRONG POSITION OF SOVIET. WASHINGTON, January 27th. Mr. Martens, the so-called Bolshevist

cannot

estimates of economics in peace time are name as Edward, Edwin Reginald Lock in England betray the most complete mia in their pockete, but, finding themselves and allows are enjoyed by the

Ambassador to the United States, inforical prevention of waste in fuel manteau was found some theatrical introduce a Home Rule Bill at this

ed the Senate Committee which is investi- gating the question of Russian foreignhouse Baving) would be returnable, to The taxicab is stated to have been hired read The leaders are absolutely uncom

propagands that the Soviet organisation has become strong enough to fight the world," therefore the Soviet has censed to urge an international revolution.

He declared that the Soviet Tronstry possessed about 8500,000,000 wherewith it now desired to purchase necessities abroad.

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Condition of affairs over here."

aclure is worse than useless. It is the bendity. The Sinn Fein frame of mind height length, breadth, and depth of is open as a book to anyone who can pdonising. In a sense this is the most honest, movement of the kind the country. is experienced. It says what it means and sticks to it. Sinn Feiners say

total savings through sales of cookhouse Truro-road, Wood-green. In the port.

paper bottles, etc., and the and other things

which are pos

grease-paints, and in one of his pockets peace time may amount to be much as found at the bank, loaded with five cart sible with the Regular Army at home in a piece of lead piping. A revolver was

A proportion of this sum (e.g.,

ridges. One had been discharged. the men, but even so the relief to Army at Camden Town, the driver being order expenditure would probably amount to ed to proceed to Barclays Bank, High £70,000 per annum

road, Wood-green. On arrival the main entrance was closed, but a clerk admitted FUTURE OF LONDON UNIVERSITY: The revolver was fired immediately after the shape of Dominion, or any similar the man on his request to see the manager nothing less. Therefore any attemptin We want a Republic and we will take The man, after being admitted into the The hon. general secretary of the Uni- versity of London Graduates Association bank, was shown into the manager's room form of Home Rale to water down that His written as follows to the Minister for and took a seat beside his desk. His con demand is foredoomed to failure, big Education:---

versation led to the impression in the

12 KEEPING THE POT BOILINGA At the last meeting of the Council of manager's mind that he was acting for It may sound strange after Archbishop the University of London Graduates a client. As the manager was seeking Walsh's recent action, but it is none the leading statements which had appeared in attaché case which he was holding on his ment of a Republic more than do the Association atttention was called to mis particulars from him, the man opened and true that no one fears the establish sity of London, and in particular as to and presenting it, said "Get that themselves Always keep the pot of the Frees as to the future of the Univer kaco, He then whipped out a revolvee, on Catholic hierarchy and clergy the site of its headquarters, aleo to the money,"

ngitation boiling is their policy, and fact that private negotiations had been taking, place as to the organization of the man, seized him by the wrist, and atas asked to intercode in the famous The manager instantly closed with the ways has been. When Cardinal Logge University and its constituent colleges tempted to throw him to the floor, at the Louth election, when O'Brien and Healy and its schools I was directed to coxa The Swabian Mercury reports that the hope of the council that any proposals weapon went off, and the bullish lodged to a member of the deputation who told me musicute with you and to express the same time trying to get possession of the were i owing mid at each other, his reply, revolver. During the encounter the which has never been published-it was Stuttgart Court was recently requcated to which H.M. Government might make as

orbid the publication of the third volume to the fatore of the organization of the the wall. The shot, together with the was, No gentlemen, I won't inter of Bismarck's Memoirs. This application University, or the site of its headquarters manager's call for help, attracted the at fere A little dissension is good for the came from the ex-Kaiser's representatives might be communicated to the Senate tention of the clerks, who rushed in, and Trish Party Unity in the country is on the ground that a number of his letters and Convocation in order that the granthe head cashier, seeing what had hap the very lost thing the Church wants would be pablished The Court decided dustes and their representatives might pened, snatched, a weight from one of the My Church aid a priest, bolieres to prohibit the publication temporarily be in a position fully to consider any such scales and hit the man over the era in dividing for strength when it suits The matter will come before a higher proposals and to express their opinion knocking him down. He was then secured purpose

thereon.

over to the police

(Continued at foot of next column.)

Mr. Martens displayed a list of about & thousand names of American business houses, which, he said, were ready to do

business with him.

Court

BISMARCK'S MEMOIRS.

"PROCLAIMED BY SINN FEIN." soriously as witness the following docu The Sinn Feiners take themselves very ment which has fallen into my hands

We hereby proclaim a military area with the following regulations;

paz

be antedated to July lat., 1019, the date. on which the revised conditions of pay

taxpayer.-Morning Post for the Indian Army came into fores not be a very expensive matter to the That would be bare justice: and it would

(a) A-policeman found within the said

MIDDLE-CLASS ELECTORATE, ares on and after will be deemed t

(b) On and after every person in Middle Classes Union, said they were have forfeited his life, the more notorious

Colonel Pretyman Newman, M.P police being dealt with far as possible speaking on December 3rd at the United first

Wards Club, Cannon-stroot Hotel, on the the pay of England (magistrates, jurors, going to take a leaf out of the book of etc.) who helps England to rule this coun-organized labour and have a branch of try or who assists in any way, the up- the union in every political division-of holders of the foreign government will be Great Britain. That ant, hearly coo deemed to have forfeited his life, branchen. At every by-election they would (o) Civilians who give information to put questions to the candidates," and the police ar soldiery, especially such where necessary would run a candidate. information as is of a serious charactor, of their own. They had got two of their if convicted, will be executed.ie, shit.armembers on the Central Profiteering A hangodi

(d) Police, doctors; and prison officials any great strike directed to paral zing A Board. They were organized to defent who susist at, or who countenance, or whe railways, transport services, and coal- ard responsible for, or who are in any mines. They had a very strong commit- way connected with the drugging of any tee, with a distinguished ex-officer of the Irish citizen for the purpose of obtaining British Army at the head, one of the information will be deemed to have for great organizers at the War Office- foited his life, and may be hanged or Organized labour claimed six and a-half cutlaw. Offending parting will be executed drowned or shot at sight is a common should it take years to track them down (0) Every citizen must assist, when quired, in enabling us to perform our duty.

By Order

from the co-operative societies, but the million votes and slmi four million votem. middle-class electorate nurabered about million votes, so that voting as the middle interest bad a clear majority. At the next General Election the middle, class in most vote as such for once.