Britain.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 313, 6 December 1918, Page 5

Britain.

GENERAL ELECTIONS. MANY UNCONTESTED SEATS. London, Dec. 4. Nominations close to-day. It is expected that .160 candidates will be unopposed, including Mr Lloyd George, Mr. Balfour and Mr Clynes, also 22 Sinn Feiners in Ireland, including Mr. De Valera and Count Plunkett. —(A. and N.Z.) 107 RETURNED UNOPPOSED. NUMEROUS CANDIDATES FOR < OTHER SEATS. (Received 10 a.m.) London, Dec. 5. Up to midnight 107 members were returned unopposed, made up offiCoalition Unionists .. 41 Coalition Liberals .. 27 Sinn Feiners 27 ll Nationalist 1 For the other seats there is an unprecedented number of candidates. They include 580 Coalitionists, whereof 45 are Unionists and 125 Liberals, the remainder being Laborites. The Independent candidates number 270. Liberals oppose the Coalitionises in numerous triangular contests due to the plethora of Labourites, numbering 400 of various shades, and Independents, including National Party and Discharged Soldiers’ Federation candidates. There are 14 women candidates. The 105 Irish ceats are contested by 57 Nationalists, 80 Sinn Feiners and 38 Unionists. —(A. and N.Z.) BOTTOMLEY STANDS FOR HACKNEY.

(Received 6, 11.30 a.m.) London, Dec. 5. Members of Parliament re-elected for their former constituencies include Messrs Arthur Balfour, Banbury, Clynes, Chamberlain, Brace, Burdett, Courts, Will Crooks, Kennedy Jones, Wilson, J ox, the Speaker (Mr. Lawther), T. P. O’Connor, Colonel John Ward, Wardle, Spencer, Hughes, Wedgewood, Sir H. Dalziel, Abraham, De Valera, Count Plunkett, Richards, and Yate. The nomination of Mistress Hodges against Mr. Asquith has been rejected on the ground of informality. Horatio Bottomley yesterday secured his discharge in bankruptcy and has been nominated for South Hackney.—(A. and N.Z.) THE SILENT NAVY. ONE SQUADRON INTERCEPTS 15,000 SHIPS. (Received 6, 11.20 a.m.) London, Dec. 4. Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated the Tenth Cruiser Squadron guarded from the Orkneys to Iceland. It intercepted fifteen thousand ships carrying supplies to the enemy. Under 4 per cent of the ships succeeded in evading the blockade. —(A. and N.Z.) NEW ZEALANDERS DECORATED. : (Received 6. 11.30 a.m.) *■ London, Dee. 5. The bar to the Distinguished Service Order has been awarded to Major H. G. Willing, New Zealand, Field Artillery. | Distinguished Service Orders have been awarded to Lieut.-Colonel P. 11. Bell. Rifle Brigade; Majors C. H. McClelland, W. C. Sinel. Auckland Regiment; F. K. Turnbull. Wellington Regiment. j Bars to the Military Cross are 1 awarded to Lieuts. R E. Ashley and R. V. Hollis of the Wellington Regiment. I LONDON NEWS ITEMS. ’ A Vancouver message reports an ' earthquake in Northern Chile badly damaged, the towns of Capiapo and Valtenari. I The airplane has begun to act as a connecting link between African and Asiatic countries where there is no railway. It flew from Cairo to j Damascus and next day to Bagdad, i —(Reuter.) ■

A Washington cable states that out of the war’s necessities has been developed a new synthetic process of making glycerine by the fermentation of sugar at low cost. The secret was carefully guarded while the war lasted, but is now announced. The process has been tested profitably on a large scale. A message from Rome states that the scout-ship Rossal truck a mine near Fiurne. and sank. A hundred lives were lost. | It is semi-officially announced that the Montenegrin Government has denied the Austrian report that the Skuptschina decided to depose King Nicholas and unite with Servia. i An Amsterdam message states that the ex-Emperor Karl intends to enter the March elections in Austria, at the head of a democratic I monarchy party. | A New York cable says that the Chicago visible wheat supply is 128,223,000 bushels.