LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 18503, 10 December 1923, Page 8

LATE CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright BRITISH ELECTIONS. LONDON, December 9. (Received December 10, at 11.30 a.m.) Seventy-four per cent, of the electors voted compared with 75 per cent, in November, 1923. There are 213 members representing minorities as the result of the triangular contests, of whom ninety-four are Conservatives. seventy-one Laborites, and forty-eight Liberals’. One hundred and -fifty-eight seats changed hands, of which eighty were the scenes of triangular contests. Labor’s gains include forty-three in the triangular fights. The Liberals won twenty-seven. Labor won seven seats with majorities exceeding 10,000, the Conservatves three, and the Liberals none.. Labor won three scats with majorities below 100, the Liberals eight, and the Conservatives five. The newspapers are calling attention to the fact that there were. 263 triangular contests, and urge Parliament to enact preferential or proportional voting.— Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable, FEELING IN JAPAN TOKIO, December 9. (Received December 10, at 11.30 a.m.) The first reaction from the British election hero is the question of whether or not the results will spell the defeat of the Singapore project, which Labor has combated. The defeat of Mr Baldwin’s protective policy is pleasing the Japanese Press.-—Renter. (Received December 10, at 12.15 p.m.) The secretary of the Proportional Rep resentation Society writes to the Press stating that if Proportional Representation had operated in the 548 contested seats the Conservatives would have won 207 instead of 214, Labor 168 instead of 189, the Liberals 164 instead of 139, and the Independents nine instead of six. The Laborites are taking legal advice over the counting of the votes in Sedgefield, which the Conservatives won with a majority of six. The complaint is based on the. fact that 100 properly marked ballot papers had to be rejected because they had not been stamped by the polling booth officer.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A FIENDISH DEED. LONDON, December 9. (Received December 10, at 12.15 p.m.) John Whalley, of Accrington, was sentenced to penal servitude for life for having chopped off both the hands of his five-year-old step-daughter in order to revenge himself upon his wife. Six thousand sterling was raised by public subscription for the mutilated child.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BOOM AT WEMBLEY, • LONDON, December 9. (Received December 10, at 12.15 p.m.) Houses are being rushed up in large numbers at Wembley, and in many coses they are being sold for sums ranging from £BOO to £2,000, according _to size, as soon as the foundations are laid. Many people are buying them with a view to letting them at a profit during the currency of the Empire Exhibition.—A. and N.Z" Cable.