OPPOSITION LEADERS.
BOTH PARTIES JUBLIANT.
LLOYD GEORGE'S CAUTION",
"NOT YET OUT OP WOOD."!
(Received 1.45 a.m.) Reuter. LONDON. Dec. 7* When Mr. Asquith appeared .after iiid declaration of the poll, he was loudly cheered. He said that Paisley was art impregnable citadel of Liberalism, and added that Liberals throughout the cown-« try were routing boti Protection and Socialism. Mr. Lloyd George heard the results by wireless at his home in Surrey. He ex-> pressed himself as satisfied so far, but! added: "We are not yet out c c the wood." As a matter of fact, the votes in three-fifths of the constituencies *emain uncounted. t , Mr. Winston Churchill declared that* whatever might be the consequence, haj would never associate himself with ths violent movement of the Left, nor that 06 the extreme reactions, y Right. He was certain from the results that Protections was broken to pieces. Commenting on his election for the eleventh time, Mr. J. H. Clynes declared that . the result indicated that the Labour j Party before long will be not His Majtrty'a Opposition, hut His Majesty's Government.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 11
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