The Cairo bulletin., 1910-01-16
FIRST BATTLE
AND No CHANGE
HOW FIRST SERIES OF ELEC-
TiONS IN ENGLAND HELD
YESTERDAY RESULTED.
UNION|STS ARE STRONG
Gained 10 Seats in House of Com
mcEs---L liberals Gained 3--E1-
eitina Scenes in Streets
cf l. london.

London, Jan. 15.-At the clcse OF
the general elections today, the
standing of the various parties, in
clrding uncontested seats, was as
follows:
unionists AZ; Liberals 81; La
borites 6; Nationalists 5.
Thc unionist gains were IS; Lib
eral gains 5; Labor gains over Lib
erals, / no changes 60.
or the twelve seats contested in
London, the Liberals hold seven, I'm
ionists 5.
In the provinces the Uaionists
gained Southwest Manchester. Staly-
bridge, Rochester, Burnley, two seats
in Devonporte, Cambridge, Yarmouth,
Gloucester, Wolyerhampton West and
South Wedneshrry, ard two seats in
Bath
The Liberals won Manchester
(northwestl. Darlington and Grims5y
The Lahoritc3 gaired East Manches-
ter
The first engagement in the fight
for tariff reform, a great navy and
supremacy OF lords as against free
trade, the reform of the house OF
lords md home rule. ended therefore
with neither party in commanding
position The results OF todag's poll
ing tend to confirm the forecast that
the Liberals will retain control of
the government with greatly re-
dueed majority. The Unonists gained
an encouraging number Of seats, al
though less than 20 of the number
which they expected to take from the
Liberals oft of the ii balloted for
The popular vote goes strongly
against the Lihefa g, The Liberia $
who hold seats won them today, by
maiorities ranging from thirty to
sixty per cent below their ulaiorities
in 1897, except in a few borovghs
where special conditions figure, The
popular vote poIed by the Liberals
afor the twelve londons seats show q
stronger hold on power than in tie
provinces. The majority Of the Lon
don bor0ughs We're labor districts,
birmingham has been strongly con
aervatire, largely the result Of Joseph
&ttGIibtt tKIit : III NEdtt lNi Va tt1ttibI'
and today the t]nionists carried the
city solidly by increased majorties of
nearly 5000 larger than in 1855.
In Manchester. the Unionists in
creased their votes. for while the Lib
erals still have Give Of six seats, the
Liberal majorities We're decreased
na-ly 5000.
The most sweeping change in Lon
don was in Fulham borough, where
the middle class population went on
Enthusiastically for tariff reform. giving
Fischer, the I7niorist candidate. a
majority Of 2.000 Fulham in the last
election went Liberal by GOO
GeV0npOrtc. where the big navy is
sue was predominant. wiped ont the
Liberal majority of 1900 and returned
two Unionists by 500 Sir Henry Nor
man, Liberal journalist, who was re-
Gently appointed assistant postmaster
general, was beaten at Wolyernamp-
ton. south. by a small majority, In
order to retain his place in the cab
met he will he nominated for another
borough
Waldorf Astor and Sir II, Mortimer
Drrand. former ambassador to the
United States, who contested the two
Plymouth seats as Unionists, were de.
featcd but cut down that city's Lih-
eral majority from 2,3G7 in 1906 to
sac.
Davidson Dalsiel, promoter. running
sas 1nionist, turned out ]. H. SeaY,
.,erns, Liberal former American, from
his seat for the BriXton division Lam
beth,
i, Nv. JoynsonHicks, t1nionst. who
Feat Winston Spencer ChnrchhlI in
fManchester by election in 1908 hy
-f39 votes loses his seat to Sir G.
Kent. Liberal. by 7S3. Wydham, who
VIII be BoEofnorgeneral of Canada, If
the tinionists secured the government,
carried his seat by the slightest in
creased majority
The Liberals cut 4 thousand votes
from Sir, Gilbert Parker in the
Gravesend district but he retains his
seat as Unionist The famous bar.
rlster Rufus lsaacs, keeps Reading
for the I.ihoras by Il small majority,
but Russell Rea a ship owner, who
was prominent in ireeent peace con.
ferences, loses Gloucester to the I'm
) ionist. T. Terrell Lincoln. Liberal
orsted II Pike Pease. one Of the most
prominent lnionists, from Darling
ton. hv ~ votes Premier Asuuiths
brother in-law Sir =. Tennant, lost
his seat for Salisbury to the Unionist
lncker-l ampson by SIS
The most exciting scenes occurel
at Grimaby. where a menacing crowd
compelled Lloyd George. chancellor oi
the excheqner. TO foe from tho hal
where he had hcca speaking, under
police protection.
art of the hostility was cat,sed bS
the chancellor's unusual course in ad
dressing the voters on polling day
Gin the course of his speech he de
clarea IF German feet, in d mo
nont Of mfdness ever attacked Great
Britain. It would be at the bottom oi
the. German ocean in very few
hours"
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