New Britain herald., 1929-05-31

- = Hi = tAe sxeAssusF in the AalAwta caa- tns< and eas of the chief hsuras Ia tAs conservative party. vas rselsct- sa fer the Epping division Of Esssx today.
 Other cabinet ministers returned to the commons included the follow ing: 1ir W. Joynson- Hicks home secretary: Sir Austen Chamberlain. foreign secretary: Colonel L. c. N. s. ,Amery. Dominion ahairs and the colonies; Sir L. Worthington Evans, war secretary: Sir Samuel Hoars, air secretary; Sir P. Cunliffe- Lister. president of the board of trade; Lord Eustace Percy. president of the board of education; Neville Chamberlain. minister of health. The parliamentary under secretary for foreign affairs, not of cabinet rank, G. Locker-Lampson. was re- elected.
 Lady Ast0r Wins
 Women candidates polled . total of z4s.737 votes but only four of them had been returned to the com- mons. Lady Astor. conservative, from Sutton division, Plymouth. won by greatly reduced majority of 21l votes after one of the most vigorous campaigns of her career. The totals were Lady Astor,. 16.6e5: w. Vest wood. labor. 16.41t; Agate, liberal. 5,43O.
 Other women gaining seats were Lady Iveagh. South End-On-Sea conservative; Miss Ellen Wilkinson, from Middlesbrough, east, labor who retained her seat; and Mrs. Mary Hamilton of Blackburn, labor. who won from a conservative incumbent.
 The fifth woman to be elected to 9 seat in the commons was laborite. Susan Lawrence. of Eastman, north, who retains her seat against con scrvative and liberal masculine op- ponents with majority of o,164.
 Miss Megan Lloyd George. daugh- ter of the liberal leader and former premier, was elected to the House of Commons over conserva- tive and labor opponents. She suc- ceeded liberal incumbent. In Birmingham labor lost the one seat it had held but gained four others. Labor took the three Sal- fords and the four Bradfords, sweep ing through the industrial sections of the midlands and the north. cap- turing seat after seat or reducing government majorities almost to the vanishing point.
 Liberals Show Poorly
 Most surprising of all to many were the comparatively few seats the liberals were able to show for their intensive campaign. Although poll- ing fair proportions of the popu- lar vote they only rarely converted 1t into seats. Among the party's prominents winning was Sir Herbert Samuel, chief organizer, who wrcst- cd seat from the conservatives. It was impossible 10 tell how the women, most of them newly enfran- chised. voted except that they did not offer unusual support to members of their own sex. More than 5000 ,00O were eligible to vote for the first time. among these being the flap pers' between the ages of 21 and :5. Communists Fail Utterly
 The communists fared badly. Their principal candidate Shapurji Saklat- vala. fiery parsee from Bombay. lost in North Battersea to the laborite Sanders in a four-cornered fight. Oliver Baldwin, socialist son of Pre- mier Baldwin. was elected as labor member in Dudley, Worcester He captured the seat by plurality of more than 5000 from his fathers party.
 Macdonald Jubilant Ramsay Macdonald, labor leader. was jubilant this morning when seen nt the headquarters of his party
 ''The results are magnificent" he said. "The government has lost the confidence of the country and labor has won it."
 It was different, however, at both conservative and liberal party head quarters. The customary spokesman declined to comment on the results Of the polling thus far and the at- titude seemed to be in both places that the fight was neither won nor lost as yet and that further returns were necessary to enable the final outcome to be guaged.