MANY WOMEN CANDIDATES
LONDON, 27th November. After the Sunday truce, the election battle has recommended with full fury. Owing to tho fogs and hard weather throughout the country, several candidates almost missed nomination; -including. Major O. .Lloyd George, at Pembroke. Mr. Braithwaite, Pontefract, came ashore from Scythia in a special tender, and caught the 8.25 train to Leeds. He there jumped irifo a waiting motor-car, and reached the nomina-tion-room on the ninth stroke of twelve. The women c'adidates number thirtyfour: Conservatives, seven; Liberal, twelve; Labour, twelve; Independent, one; Cq-operator, one; Communist, one. Mrs. Hilton Pliilipson is the only woman opposed by another woman. Though duly nominated, Sir Arthur Stanley, son of Lord Sheffield, is confined to his home at Alderley Park with mumps, and will be unable to speak during the election. The nominations disclosed the final combatants and the number of three-corner-ed contests.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 5
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144MANY WOMEN CANDIDATES Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 5
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