PUNCTURES FOR PROTECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 December 1923, Page 7

PUNCTURES FOR PROTECTION.

. WHAT MR. CLTNES SAID. LONDON, December 7. When Mr. Asquith appeared after the declaration of the poll, he was loudly cheered. He said that Paisley was an impregnable citadel of Liberalism, and added that Liberals throughout the country were routing both Protection and Socialism. Mr. Lloyd George heard the results by wireless at his home in Surrey. He expressed himself as satisfied so far, but added: "We are not yet out of the jwood." As a matter of fact, the votes in three-fifths of the constituencies remain uncounted. 1 3,T r . Winston Churchill declared that, whatever might be the consequences, he would never associate himself with the violent movement of the Left, nor that of the extreme reactionary Right. He was certain from the results that Protection was broken to pieces. Commenting on his election for the I eleventh time, Mr. J. H. Clynes declared that the result indicated that the Labour party before long will be not Hia Majesty's Opposition, but His Majesty's Government!— (Reuter.) CHASING A WINNER LONDON, December 7. The crowd at Chelsea broke through the police cordon at the Town Hall and chased the successful candidate, Sir Samuel Hoare. to his committee room, ' whereas Mr. Bertrand Russell, the defeated Labour candidate, was carried shoulder high.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)