The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30
BRITISH LABOR SUFFERS DEFEAT AT TORY HANDS Conservatives Maintain Wide Lead In First
 Returns INDUSTRIAL AREA TURNS FROM LEADER Liberals Likewise Suffer; Asquith May Soon
 Retire
tBy Associated Press. )

LONDON, Oct. 29.-The Conservative party appeared headed toward early return to power, with a working ma :jority over all others, when at 3 o'clock this morning almost half the constituents in Great Britain had reported their votes cast in yesterdays cleo tion for the new parliament. At that hour the standing of the various parties in the par liamentary>election was as fol- lows: Conservatives, 160 seats; Labor, 72; Liberals, 22; other parties, 9.
 This shows a net gain of 49 seats for the Conservatives and a net loss of 15 for the Laborites and 36 for the Lib erals.
 Join Tn Industrial Area
 The heaviest swing to conservatism in the early rounds came from the in dustrial north and the midlands. The conservatives captured seven of the ten Manchester seats, one of which they occupied in the last parliament. They scored further triumphs in New Castle, Northampton, Nottingham and other great manufact curing centers in London and its suburbs. 4ss H The party made still further gains i'll many places, and where the laboritcs held seats in some constituencies they did so with decreased majorities, while the trend back to Toryism was marked with heavier majOrities than heretofore ill constituencies that almost always elect conservatives.
 The liberals lost all along the line. | Manchester and Liverpool turned | strongly from them to the conserva- | tive fold, while laborites busted liberals. Herbert H. Asquith included.
 Former Premier Asquith suffered q | severe setback, and the opinion is ex- pressed that his retirement from the | political arena may be far.
 Miss BOnfield Defeated
 The defeat of Miss Margaret D. Bon field removes from parliament a notable figure. She was the first woman to be appointed to ministerial position in the British government, acting as secretary for the minis try of labor since her election in 1923. She was chairman of the Trades Union congress and also had the distinction of being the first woman to hold that im- portant position in the British indus trial world.
 aIA Anl Al. Sutton division of Plymouth Lady As tors majority was increased from g. 6t6 to 5,079. The polling Lady As tor, conservative, 1S,174; Captain G. W Brenan, labor, 13,095.
 Former Premier Asquith was defeat ed in Paisley. Arthur Henderson, sec rotary for home affairs in the Mac Donald ministry, was reelected from The figures were Henderson, 2O, ,549: Fairburn, conservative, 16,0S4, and Whitehead, liberal, S,601.
 An extraordinary significance result was at Wallasley where the Conserva- tive R. 5. Chadwick retained his seat, but, whereas in the last election, his was only S49, in his contest againsI a liberal, his majority this time in q contest against q labOrite was 13,- 965. The figures were: Chadwick, 22,- 599 Warren, labor, 8,634.
 Oliver Baldwin, the laborite son of former Premier Stanley Baldwin, was beaten in Dundley by the conservative, .. k. Lloyd. The vote was: Lloyd, Ill., l99; Baldwin, 10,314.
 Lady Diana Manners husband, Ma ior A. Duff Cooper, conservative, won another victory for his party in the Old field district. The vote: Duff Cooper, 37, 7,419; Sir Edward Grigg, liberal, 3G.761; W. J. Tout, labor, 23,- j23; J. Wilson, labor, 22,0S1. Con- ,erYative gain (tHo electedl.