FIVE BY-ELECTIONS WILL BE FOUGHT IN BRITAIN THIS WEEK
All Conservative Seats POSSIBILITY OF THREE DEFEATS IS INDICATED WIDESPREAD ILL-FEELING. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday, 7 p.m. LONDON, March 17. Five by-elections this week will be worth watching, in view of the general elections. All vtere Conservative seats with the following majorities at the last election;—East Toxtcth, 9519; Eddisbury, 16G9; Bath, 7267; North Lanark. 2028 and Holland-with-Boston, 4770. All will bo three-cornered contests, except Eddisbury, wJiero it will bo a straight-out fight between a Liberal and a Conservative. The Observer says: "A government defeat at East Toxtcth, Bath and Hol-laud-with-Boston would be a gloomy portent for the general election. The Liberals ought to win at Eddisbury, if there is anything liko a Liberal revival, concerning which there has been so much speculation. Mr. Lloyd George has been stumping the constituents, addressing ten mecrings a day. North Lanark may lose the Conservative candidate. The ill-feeling is widespread. Some means ought to be fount: for avoiding a crop of by-clections so near an appeal to the country.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6863, 19 March 1929, Page 7
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