BRITISH POLITICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1909, Page 7

BRITISH POLITICS.

LESSON LEARNT AT STRATFORD. 'A SUDDEN CONVERSION. i By T<lcjjrnpli.— Press Association.— Copyright. £ (ueceived May 7, B.H) a.m.) LONDON,, 6th May. Captain Kincai<l-Smith attributes , higa defeat at Stratfovd-on-Avon to the , im-f possibility of fighting single-handed <twoj great parties. He adds that since the delivery -of, the Budget he hass become convince*!*! .of the necessity of tariffs, and nojvvj avows himself a. fiscal reformer. Captain Smith, whoi* resigned his seai\ and offered himself for re-election, toj test the opinion of his constituents? on^ the question of compulsory milifery training, found himself at the bottom of the poll, with less than 500 votes. Mr. Foster, the Unionist and Tariff Reform candidate, v/oii the seat with 5374 vote 3, and a Radical came second with 2747. At the general election Gap tain Smith defeated Mr. Foster by 148 votes— 432l to 4173. ' ' CHILD MUEDE-R CASES. AN INNOVATION. LONDON, 6th May. In the House of Lords yesterday a{ J .Bill introduced by Lord Alverstone, pro-, viding that in cases of child . murder by mothers where execution is unlikely the death sentence shall simply be recorded, and not pronounced, was read a^second *time by 75 votes to 18.