1950-02-24 — Page 13

BRITAIN'S GENERAL ELECTION

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950. ·

How Electors Voted In Many Constituencies

How the electors voted in a number of the constituencies are below given in detail. Radio interference prevented ex-

tension in accuracy.

SOUTHWARK (Electorale 69,398)

C. Royle (Labour)... 20,885 G. A. Isaacs (Labour) .. 35,049

Labour Majority

BATTERSEA-NORTH (Electorate 44,101)

D. Jay (Labour)

M. Madden (Conserva-

tive)

Previous Result

By-election July, 1945: Jay (Labour) 11,320, Shattock (Con- servative) 4,258, Dewar (ILP) 240.

21,702

0.004

E. R. Handscombe

(Liberal)

1,000

SALFORD-EAST

J. Mahon (Communist)

035

(Electorate 61,913)

Labour majority

15.678

No Change

S. Bell (Conservative)

21,503 J. M. Greenwood (Can-

L. II. Storey (Liberal)

4,121 servative)

12.671

1. Fowler (Liberal)

5,202 J. Bent (Communist)

2,930 GOR

Labour Majority New Constituency

24.370

--Reuter.

31,055

20,783

Mrs Elizabeth Mule (La-

bour)

15,308

valve)

8,625

S. Needoff (Liberal)

4,057

Conservative

Majority 18,347

No Change

Labour Majority

8,150

New Constituency

EXETER

(Electorato 52,874)

J. C. Maudo (Conserva-

Live)

SALFORD-EAST (Electorate 00,073) F. A. Hardy (Labour) Conservative Majority 3,201 W. Sinclair (Conser No Change

24,339 T. L. Horabin (Labour) 21,133

Previona Remult 1945-Maudo (Conservative) 10,420. Travers (Labour) 15,245. Mrs Morgan (Liberal) 4,220. Conservative majority 1,175, No obange.

CHELTENHAM (Electorato 48.784) Major W.W. Hicks-Beach

(Conservalve)

A. G. Jamoa (Labour)

D. L. Lipoen (Indepen-

dent)

New Constituency.

BURNLEY

(Electorate 01,588)

BLACKPOOL-NORTH

(Electorale 59.117) Briwadier A. R. W. Low

(Conservative)

· LANCASHIRE-DARWEN (Electorato 41.161)

S. Prescott (Conserva-

tive)

W. Burke (Labour)

... 30,005

F. H. Wilson

R. Haines (Labour)

(Conservative)

23,028

J. Booth (Liberal)

10,000

W. Whitaker

13.027

(Communist)

520

D. Carradice (Indepen-

10,440

dent Labour)

203

Labour Majority

7,049

Conservative Mujority 4,982 Conservative gain

Previous Result 1945 - Lipoo3 (Independent Conservative) 10,001. Misa Ware ner (Labour) 11,095. Hicks Benchi (Conservative) 0,972, In- dependent Conservative majori- ty-4,080, No change.

ACCRINGTON (Blenisento 52,431)

H. Hynd (Labour)

Major H. A. Proctor

(Connorvalive)

A. K. Blackenza 23

(Liberal)

Labour Majority

No Change

Previous Result

No change.

Previous Result 1045-Burke (Labour) 32.122,

Milnes (Liberal National) 18,431, Labour majority 13,091, change.

KINGSTON-UPON-

THAMES...:

(Electorate 13,315)

| J. A. Boyd Carpenter

(Conservative)

D. Maskrey (Liberal)

21,205

10,022

Dr Nora M. Johns

(Labour)

403

4,273

1045-llot (Labour) 21,102.

Conservative

17.003 13,334 5,056

Conservative Majority 4,569 | No Change

CITIES OF LONDON & WESTMINSTER

(Electorate 73,310) Sir Harold Webbe (Con-

servallve)

It's The "Crown Of Somerset”

One of the most imposing churches in Great Britain is the 700-year-old Wells Cathedral in Somerset.. There has been a church in Wells since the 12th cen- tury. The cathedral took 100 years to build and was completed In the 13th century. It is the most complete example of what an ecclesiastien] city was like when the

Church, ruled the world.

19 Police Killed Disastrous West

In Malay Battle

23.-

Singapore, Feb. Malaya querillas almost wiped out a remote village police post in a three-hour battle early today, killing 10 policemen, all Malays) and wounding three, af Bukit Kepeng in the Maur

32,072

E. C. Curthoys (La-

No

bour?

14,849

J. A. Gorsky (Liberal) W. Carritt (Communist)

Conzervative

4,670

888

Majority 17,823

-Reuter.

30,000

21.220

++

NELSON AND COLNE (Electorate 52,640) 4,420 S. S. Silverman

(Labour)

25,358

A. Green

(Conservative)

Labour majority

21,110

4,242

No change.

25,010 17,401.

ใน Two women and children were also killed.

One constable who escaped said that about 300

attacked gueriliac

the station and burned it down, They made off with quantliy of arms and ammunition-Ileuter.

A

Conservative Majority. 15,057

No chanke,

MANCHESTER-CHEETHAM

Proctor (Conservative) 16,025. N. 1. Lever (Labour).. 23,012

Mortimer, (Liberal) 6,247.

bour

gain from Conservative.

W. J. O'Donovan (Con-

(Electorate 47,780)

La-K, A. Quas-Cohen Labour (Conservative)

12.181 D. McManus (Liberal) .. 3,794

Labour Majority ..... 0,031 New Constituency.

LIVERPOOL-EXCHANGE

Previous results Silvermaa (Labour) Nicholls (Conservative) Labour majority, 8,120.

LIVERPOOL-EDGE HILL

(Eirciorste 54,806)

A. J. Irvine (Labour) 21,031

E. Errington

(Conservative)

J, Bowen (Liberal) ....

majority 5,077.

FULHAM-WEST

(Elencorato 45,587)

Dr

Edith Summerskill

(Labour).

10,025

servative)

10,101

E. Walcol-lgther

(Liberal)

1,400

10,492

Sir John Reynolds

Labour majority

Labour Majority

2.601

(Conservative)

14,150

No change.

A. G. Clenther

(Indep, Labour)·

381

Labour majority

No change.

No Change

Previous Result

1945-Dr Edith Summerskilt

(Labour) 19,537. Lucas (Con-

servative), 18,010.

Labour m13-

Jurity 7.52. No change.

HAMMERSMITH NORTH [Elcelerate 41,472)

F. Tomney (Labour) 13,340

T. Gee (Conservative). 10,400

D. N. Pritt (Labour In-

dependent)

Mark Pick (Liberal)

Labour Majority

Labour rain.

Church

Labour Majority

(Electorate 40,756) Mrs Elizabeth Braddock

(Labour)

Previous Result

HENDON SOUTH

(Electorate 37,089) Sir Hugh Lucas-Toothi

(Con.)

..... 10.030

2,247

3,001

T. Sargant (Labour) C. Tolley (Liberal)

Conservative majority ... No change

IPSWICH (Electorate 72,277) 5.342 R. R. Stokes (Labour)

S, W. Ripley

(Conserva'ive)

1945 Mra Braddock (Labour J. Seward (Liberal)

8,494),

(Conservative) Shute

1,829, Labour

(45. majority Labour gain from Conservative. LIVERPOOL-SCOTLAND

(Electorate 37,303)

D. G. Logan (Labour).. 38.087. de Freitas (Labour)

8,457

1,402

J. V. Woolfam

2,040

(Conservative)

'J. Coward

(Communist)

Labour majority

No change,

LANCASHIRE-

FARNWORTH

Point Fire

GRAVE ASMARA RIOTING

BRITISH TANKS

IN ACTION

Asmara, Eritrea, Feb. 23.-British troops with tanks went into action here today, to break into buildings where, rioters were hiding in the third consecutive day of Christian-Moslem clashes, in which 41 people have been killed.

At time during the day the For the first time Moslem situation in the Eritrean capital | dend were left unburied in the Leemed completely out of hand. [streets, in defiance of tradition Eut at sunset British troops ip- hecause people wero afraid of peared to havo things under being shot at while burying control.

them. Fire-ralsers hid when police Christian dend were taken to patrols appeared

then the cemitery by lorry under started new fires, During the military escort.

day,

of

And

the worst of the three days

During the afternoon a Mos disorders, there were 24 fires tem named Haj Ibrahim

WILL

in Moslem shops and wooden stabbed in the middle of a street,

ctails in

markets. Several times riolers set fire

His masallants were cutting his

10 bulldings in one part of the left arm city after entling the Arc

wlien the polico

arrived and they fleet.

The city facca a probablo brigade to another by falsonicat shortage tomorrow, beenum

alarms.

The police fired

on looters,

the cattle market and slaughter

killing two and injuring others houses in the African quarter

were closed.--Reuter. After this looting stopped, but band grenades thrown Intu Croups of people wounded nine.

The police arrested than 150 people.

more

COMMISSION'S APPEAL The wounded were estimateil. at about 130, all Coptic Christians and Moslema

Fire Aboard Aircraft-Carrier

Son Diego,

Feb. 23--Fire

broke out tonicht on board The five-Power Unlied No-the aircraft carrier Valley tions Commission, now at work Forge, docked at the naval sta- In Asmarn

the tion

inquiring into

futuro of colony of

Eritrea, today

pealed to the cease

the former Italizo The Valley Forge is a 27,000- apton craft. The Naval Hood-

to quarters,

which announced the outbreak, said that it began at

violence Population The disturbances began when 6.00 p.m. GMT and the extent

members ol pro- of the blaze was not immediate-

grenades into a procession of 4,» Ships of this category-the

Sbilio

A fire of serious proportions broke out at 251 Queen's-Road-West-at-its-junction-with-Liu-Fung Ethiopian bands threw threely known. Street about 2 o'clock this morning, completely coo Modems at the funeral of Essex class-were estimated to destroying the entire building and badly affecting a man killed by Shifta the day cost about $70,000,000 each- the next door premises, No. 249.

There were no casualties, however, as all the inmates managed to escape into the street on the alarm being raised.

Six appliances were de the great heat projected from spatched to the scene from the building. Central, Western and Eastern

Investigations are being, inade

fire stations and fought the this morning to find out if there blaze under the direction of Mr had been such illegal storage. W. J. Gorman, Chief OMeer, The collapse of the building

On arrival the Fire Brigade is attributed to old nge. It was found the

Arst fortunate that the fire broke ground and floors well alleht, and the put in a flames had secured a firm hold had spread in one direction only

before.

Reuter.

SHANGRILA BALL

In Aid Of

BOYS & GIRLS' CLUBS

corner building and ASSOCIATION OF HONG KONG

24.917 of the upper doors, Shortly Instead of two. 15.381 after the floors eollapsed with

7,430

#resounding roar. blaže began to spread 9,520 adjoining house.

Andl the to tac

ANOTHER OUTBREAK

Shortly after 0.15 .m. to- day, two appliances were de- A large mumber of hoses were spatched to 60 Conaught Road played on the flames and the Central, where a small fire had Fre was brought under control broken out in the ground floor, about half-an-hour later. The occupied by a firm dealing in blaze, however, continued. to the paper business. The blaze 1.487 rage for some time after and was extinguished without any

fondly extinguished serious damage being done. was not until about 1a.m.

20,867

16,820

BIRMINGHAM-ASTON (Electorale 60,628) 20,386 W. D. Wyatt (Labour)

C. Doughty (Conserva- 24.003 tive)

8.340 A Einbrey (berui)

S. W. Keatley (indepen- 4,303

dent)

Labour majority No change.

330

LINCOLN (Electorate 48,582)

24,240

21,537 J. F. Hill (Conservative), 17,784 Miss Jean Henderson

Labour majority (no

change)

... 12,041 WEMBLEY NORTH (Electorate 48,817)

013

(Liberal)

3,753

10.847

Labour majority No change.

un-

Previous Result

E. E, Bullus (Conserva-

live)

B. Lewis (Labour) 3,753 B. Dann (Liberal)

Deer (Labour) 14,052, Liddali (Conservative) 10,414. Truman (Liberal) 9,025, Labour majority 3,038.

LEYTON

(Electorale 78.491)

13,710

(Electorate 150,833)

1,012

George Tomlinson

(Labour)

Rev. R. W. Sorenson

15,375

4,019

F. Kay (Conservative) S. Lomnx (Liberal)

1-1,260

(Labour)

5,103

P. J. Williams

(Conservative)

Labour majority

11,109

Labour ninjority

Conservative majority

(rain)

BUILDING COLLAPSES

The collapse of No. 251 de- stroyed number of hawker Street. hitches in Liu Fung

The stalls were closed for the considerable otherwise 22,430 night 14,997 camities might have necurred

5,770 15

7,443

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE (Electorate 47,989)

II. Rhodes (Labour)

G. B. Howcroft (Conser-

vative)

they

patronized are well

during the day.

Great excitement prevailed in |

GRIM COAL STRIKE REACTIONS

Pittsburgh, Feb. 23.-Coal- companies today drastic production

A GRAND NIGHT of CARNIVAL

AT THE

GRIPPS, HONG KONG HOTEL

TO-NIGHT

FROM 8.30 P.M. TO 2.00 A.M.

UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF His Excellency The Governor & Lady Grantham, FEATURING

THE FAMOUS AVERIL TONG IN HER SCARF DANCE.

the neighbourhood, and practi-starved steel cally the whole of the person prepared nei of Western Police Station cuts that would deal a smah- 20,9703 out to maintain ordering blow to the nation's heavy

industries.

Micky Kwan and safeguard the public,

With the authorities in ten 20,040 onion was placed around the States already imposing ener-

Chiu Ven-yea and temporary area,

the big steel companies reported was found for the lumates of the they were at the end of the

Miss Joyce Nesbitt oflected buildings, met

lina for fuel.

H. Blackwell (Commu- .nist}

457

35,702

24.052

5.858

11,650

Labour inafority (no

change) LIVERPOOL WALTON (Electorate 63,962) K. P. Thompson (Con-

servative)

921

When lost their entire perty.

Free Result

1045 Pritt (Labour Indepen-

dent) 18,845, Caplan (Conserva-

tive) 7,510.

(Labour) 3,105. Labour Independent

njority 11,329. No change, MANCHESTER-EXCHANGE

(Electorate 45,285)

W. D. Griffiths (Labour) 10,335

K. S. Harper (Conserva-

Live)

J. Cooper (Liberal) ...

No Change

Previous Result 1945-Lever (Labour) 11,087,

Hewlett (Conservative) 7,050, Kenyon (Liberal) .bour

2,018, La-

Previous Result

(Labour) Logan opposed. No change.

1945

No change.

Previous Result 1015 Tomlinson (Labour) Howard (Conservative) 14,570, Labour majority 13,802. No change.

majority 4,107-Labour | 20.462. gain from Conservative.

MANCHESTER-

WITHINGTON

(Electorale 51,124)

Cundif

F. W. (Conservative)

ET. Wright (Labour)

L. P. Behrens (Liberal) 0,501

PADDINGTON-SOUTH

(Electorale 48,210)

...... 20,310

Capt. S. de Chair

(Conservative)

S, M. Myer (Liberal)...

C. O. Appleton (Liberal)

STOCKTON-ON-TEES (Electorate 48.573) Captain G. R. Chetwynd

(Labour)

It, A. Lamb

(Conservative)

A. G. Gamble (Liberal).

די

Major

22,817

14,206

C. II. Wegg Presser

(Labour)

Conservativo Majority 8,011

No Chanta

Previous Result

1945-Fleming (Conservative)

30,861. Edwards (Labour)

MIDDLESBROUGH EAST

(Electorate 50,050)

J. Haworth (Labour) E. Heywood (Liberal)

L

shelter

E

of

United States Steel Corporn.

an

announcement of

and

The Strange Inn At The Crossroad. Pipa Solo "Downfall Of Chu",

(Waltz "Because"}

and

{"Apalachicola" Impersonation of Danny Kayo.

}

and

tion ofleint were "appraising" Thomas Leo Both the

ground floors

the situation. Observers pre-[ Nov. 249 and 251 Queen's Road

dicted West were ocupled by shops, heavy

curtailment within 24 Mr. John Van David -- mis pected by the Fire hours. $0.250

Jones and Loughlin, the na- Carmoniita Pepita "The Bolivian Bombshell". 21,983 Dade that there might have

In- tion's fourth largest producer, been 4.901

rome goods of an Tammable nature stored there

Saturday Its 24,000 workers vithout the permission of ready was closing down. L

will Brigade because of the rapidity with which the fire spread and

Conservative majority

(pain)

4.207 -Reuter.

23,475

**** 16,495

Conservative

12,800 4,145

majority 13,420

Labour majority ..... No change.

?

6,930

SIDE GLANCES

No change..

Previous Result

H. A. Marquand

(Labour) (Conservative)

20,185

(Liberal)

Dr N. Levy

(Communist)

...... 12,403 4,540

307

Labour majority

10,703

26,104 .. 10,559

5,512

No change.

BLACKBURN-WEST

R. Achefort

1945-Taylor (Conservative) A. Edwards

22,034, Bebrens (Liberal) 13,107,13,131, Wegg Preiser. (Labour)

Conservative majority 8,247, No 9,601. Conservative majorily Dr W. S. R. Thomas

change.

MANCHESTER-ARDWICK

(Eltolerate 40,732)

1 M. Lever (Labour). 22,028

3,530, No change.

LIVERPOOL-WAVERTREE (Elcolorate 60,050)

(Conservative)

E. Hodson (Conservative) 17,895 | J, Tileny

Labour majority

No Chango

Previous Result

4,733 | W. Hamling (Lábour}

1945 - Henderson (Labour) 14,300, Mrs Beer (Conservative) 8,093, Labour majority 6,267, No change.

MANCHESTER-GORTON

(Eicoterate 59,541)

T, J. V. Parry

(Liberal)

Conservative majority. 7,000 No change.

Previous Result 1945-Raikes (Conservative) 25,470, Van Abbe (Labour) 20,-

W. H. Oldfield (Labour) 28,083 249. Storey

J. Watts, Dr (Conserva-

tiva)

AM. Caplin (Liberal) 3,377 No change.

5.S,

(Electorate 41,377)

(Conservative)

10,320

L. J. Edwards (Labour). 17,450

Conservative majority

New Consilluency.

MANCHESTER-

WYTHENSHAWE

(Electorale 54,851)

(Liberal)

18,504 Conservative

majority

7.003

5,221

SMETHWICK (Electorale 54,30%)

Mrs Eveline Hill

(Conservative)

20.75^

7. Noble (Liberal)

873 Abbott (Communist)

Labour majority

No Change

Previous Result

0,524 | P. Gordon-Walker

(Labour)

1945 Oldfield (Labour) 24.005, Sharp (Conservativo) 10,789, Labour majority 13,208- No change.

BURY AND RADCLIFFE (Electorate 60,485) (***

W. Fletcher (Conserva

tive) ........

J. Owen (Labour)

20,185 23,705

C. E. Hindley, (Liberal) 5,802

J. Fallon (Conservative), 17,55'

Labour majority

No change.

***... 13.107

Previous Result

0,702.

By-election October, 1040. Gordon-Walker (Labour) 19.304. Falgar (Conservative) Labour majority 10,002.

POPLAR (Eleclorste 50,154)

C. W. Key (Labour)

Conservative Majority 780 Major. Lonsdale

No Change

(Conservative)

30,758

0,098

1,879

22,775

W. Bridges Labour) 17,191

diss Frances Dean

(Communist)

Conservative majority

New constituency.

$,007

5,584

LANCASHIRE-WIDNES

(Electorate 44328)

J. E. McColl (Labour) .. 21,259 Captain R. A. Pilkington

(Conservative) ....... 18.033

Labour majority

No change.

8,220

By Galbraith

COMA. 1960 BY BRA BENVIDE, BIG. 7. H. KEB, 1. 8. PAT, OFF.

1-14

"Why get nervous about having nothing to do? Would' you like to have a snow shovel and pretend this sand is our snowy aldewalk back home?"

per-

all be idle. The Crucible Steel Company, with steel fur

50 nces already down to cent production, reported thal It would make further re- his weekend and "dras- duction this

cuts next week.

The miners were still deter-| mined to keep the nation's roft coal mines shut until they ob- fein Д contract. At Brock-

way.

Pennsylvania,

1419

raided non-union loading docks and

dynamited them. The

Central Pena:ylvania Open

t

Mining Association warned the Governor, James Duff, that a "civil

war"

between United Works and non-union miners could be averted only by prompt action-United Press.

Czechs Object To W. Germany

Geneva, Feb.

23.--Czeclio-

Slovakia today objected to an invitat on

extended to being Western Germany when the fourth session of the 24-contract- ing parties to the 1947 General

Tariffs on

and Agreement Trade opened here.

Woutern Germany had been

Invited to send an observer as a preliminary to possible mem- bership in the General Agree. mant

The Chinese Nationalist, do- lerate was not present today. All reasons are being held in the strictest secrecy.

Mr Dana Wilgress, Canadian High Commissioner in London,

was unanimously re-elected *- chairmanship of the contracting parties for one year.-Reuter.

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