The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
British Voters Show Tendency Toward Tariff Reform By
 Their Ballots
BIG CROWD THREATENED
 DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
While the Election Results Show Lib eraI Losses the Government Party Retains Control of Par
 iament Thus Far.

London, January 15.-At the close of the general elections today. Use standing of the various parties, including uncontested seats, was as follows: unionists 4s, lib- erals s7, laborites 6. nationalists 5.
 Unionist gains IS, liberal gains 3, lab orite gains over liberals l. no change G.
 Of the 12 seats contested in London the liberals hold [. tho unionists 5. three of thel alter being gains in North Lam beth, Brixton and F'ulham-
 In the provinces the unionists gained 6outhwest Manchester, Staly Bridge, Sal isbury, Rochester,B urnley. two seats in Davenport, Cambridge, Yarmouth, Glou- cester, Wolverhampton, West and. South, Wednesbury and two seats in Bath
 The liberals won Manchester, northwest Darlington and Grimsby. The laborites gain was in East Manchester.
 First Fight Ended.
 The first engagement in the fight for tarln reform, a greater navy and the su- pre1nacy of the lords, as against free trade, reform of the house of lords and home rule, ended tonight with neither party in a commanding position.
 The results of the polling today tend to confirm the forecast that the liberals will retain control of the government with a greatly reduced majority
 The unionists have gained an encourag- ing number of seats, although less than the 2s which they expected to take away from the liberals out of the "A balloted for
 The popular vote goes strongly against the liberals The members of that party will hold seats given them today by ma jorities ranging from 30 to 60 per cent below their majorities in 1906. except in a few boroughs where special conditions figured in the campaign.
 erals for fne i s5sf1sassseats show a stronger hold on power then in the prov jnces- The majority of the London bor- 'lshs were labor districts. Of these the unionists carried fve, three being cap- tured from the liberal column, but by small margins.
 Manchester and Birmingham give heavy unionist gains. Birmingham has been strongly conservative, largely the result of Joseph Chamberlains crusade for pro tection, and today the unionists carried the city solidly by an increased majority, nearly 5000 larger than in 1908
 In Manchester the unionists increased their votes, for while the liberals still have five of the six seats, the liberal ma- jorities were decreased nearly 5000.
 Changes In London.
 The most sweeping change in London was in Pullman borough, where the mid dle classes went enthusiastically for tar if reform, giving w. Hayes Fisher the unionist candidate, a majority of 2ooo. In this borough in tho last election the seat went to a liberal by 800
 Davenport, where the big navy issue was predominant, wiped out the liberal majority of 1900 and returned two union- ists by 500-Sir J. Jackson and Sir c. 1<inloch Cooke. Sir Henry Norman, the liberal journalist, who is we'll known in America and who recently was ap- pointed assistant postmaster general, was beaten at Wolver Hampton. south, by small majority. In order to retain his place in the cabinet he will be nom mated for another borough.
 Waldorf Astor and Sir Fl. Mortimer Durand, the former ambassador to the United States, who contested the two Plymouth seats as unionists, were defeat ed, but cut down that city's liberal ma- jority from 2367 in 1908 to 946.
 Davidson Dalziel, promoter, and at one t lie conspicuous in Wall street, running on the unionist ticket, turned out J. H. Seaverns, liberal, and former American, from his seat for the Erik ton district of Lambeth.
 w. Joyson Hicks, the unionist who beat Winston Spencer Churchill in the Manchester Bye-election of 1907 by 429 votes, loses his seat to Sir G. Kent, liberal, by 783 The Right Hon. c. Wynd- ham, who will bo governor general of Canada if the unionists take on the gov ernment, carried his seat by slightly increased majority.
 Parker 10 Reelected.
 The liberals took away 1000 votes from Sir Gilbert Parker in tho Gravesend dis trict, but he retains his seat as . union ist. The famous barrister, Rufus IBaacs keeps Reading for the liberals by . small majority, but Russell Req. prom inent shipowner, whose face was famil- far at the recent peace conference, loses Gloucester to the unionist, H. Terrell. J. T. T. Lincoln, liberal, busted H. Pike Pease, one of the most prominent unionists, from Darlington by 2s votes. while Premier Asquith's brother-in-law, Sir D. Remnant. lost his seat for sslis- bury to the unionist, c. Locker Lamp son. by BIB votes. The most exciting scenes of the cam paign occurred at Grimsby, where a menacing crowd threatener David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, compelling him to flee from a hall whore he had been speaking. under police pro- lection, much as he was driven from a pro- Boer meeting at Birmingham dur Ing the South African war. when he made his ecape disguised in . police mans uniform.
 Part of the provocation for the hostil- ity shown towards him was caused by -the chancehor's unusual course in afi- NressfnG the voters on polling day, -. Nch has never obtained before in Irsagland. and which is considered by St many to be unconstitutional The chancellor's speech included predic- ton of disaster to the German fleet if 1t fought the British. Referring to the invincibility of the British navy he de- elared:
 If the German fleet in moment of madness ever attacked Great Britain 1t would be at the bottom of the Ger man ocean in a very few hours.'
 DodoIne the Crowd.
 A big crowd waited outsids the hall end whon tho chancellor o& the ex- cheouev appoAro6. raised ghoutp of