Arizona republican., 1910-01-16
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 MADE GAINS Result Of First Day of Brit
 Sh Elections THE FORECAST FULFILLED
It is Only Reasonably Ger tain That Liberals Will Be Sustained By Reduced Majorities- David Lloyd George Escaped Mob

London, Jan 15.-The first engage ment in the fight for tariff reform. a greater navy and the supremacy of the lords as against free trade the reform of the house of lords and home rule. ended tonight with neither party in a commanding position.
 The standing of the various parties. including the uncontested seats. fol- lows: Unionists. 43: liberals, 37: la borites. 6; nationalists. 3. Unionist gains. IS; liberal gains, ,; laborite gains over liberals, I: no change, 69.
 Of the. twelve seats contested in London. the liberals hold seven and the unionsts five. In the provinces the unionists gained in southwest Manchester. Staley Bridge, Salisbury. Rochester. Burnley. two seats in Cam bridge. Yarmouth, Gloucester, Wolver- hampton. West and South Wednes- burg and two seats in Bath. The lib- erals won in Manchester. Northwest. Darlington and Grimsby. The labor gain was in East Manchester.
 The results of the polling tend to confirm the forecast that the liberals will retain control of the government with greatly reduced majority The unionists have gained an encouraging number of seats although less than the twenty mine which they expected to take away from the liberals out of the seventy-four balloted for.
 The popular vote goes strongly against the liberals The members of that party who hold their seats won them today by majorities ranging from 30 to 50 per cent below the majorities in 1906. except in a few boroughs where special conditions figured in the campaign.
 A majority of the London boroughs were labor districts. Of these the un- ionists carried five. three being cap tured from the liberal column by small margins
 Manchester and Birmingham give heavy unionist gains. Birmingham has been strongly conservative. largely the result of Joseph Chamberlain's crusade for protection, and today the unionists carried the city solidly by an increased majority nearly 5000 larger than in 1906.
 Waldorf Astor and Sir H. Mortimer Durand. who was formerly ambassa- dor to the United States. were defeat ed as unionists. Premier Asquith's brother-in Sir E. Tennint. lost his seat for Salisbury to the unionist, G Locker Tapson. by 515 votes.
 The most exciting scenes occurred at Grimsby, where a menacing crowc threatened David Lloyd George, chan cellor of the exchequer. compelling him to flee under police protection from the hall where he had been speaking. much as he was driven from the pro- Boer meeting at Birmingham during the South African war. when he escaped disguised as a policeman.
 4 part of the provocation for the hostility shown toward him was caused by the chancellors unusual course in addressing the voters on polling day.
 
 England and which is considered by many as unconstitutional His speech included a prediction of disaster to the German fleet if it ever fought the British.
 Referring to the invincibility of the l British navy he declared: If the Ger , man fleet in a moment of madness ever attacked Great Britain it would be at 1 the bottom of the German ocean in a | very few hours''
 A big crowd waited outside the hall ] and when the chancellor appeared it ! raised the shouts of Traitor" Pro 1 Boer." The chancellor retreated with 1 in the building and a cordon of police | kept back. the crowd. The chief con stable. with an escort of police. con ducted MT. Lloyd George out of thei back door and the party retreated a 1 quarter of mile along the railway. where a small station was used as l refuge An automobile was summon ed by the police and when the motor l arrived he drove into town by a cir | cuitous route
 Several cabinet members spoke be- bore their constituents tonight Pre- mier Asquith. Foreign Secretary Gray and Chancellor Lloyd George devoted their speeches mainly to upholtiing the 1 governments management of the navy Winston Spencer Churchill. president of the board of trade, speaking at Dun- | dae. denounced the party of privilege and class'