CONSERVATIVE RETURNED
BIRMINGHAM BY-ELECTION PACIFISTS FORFEIT DEPOSITS RUGBY, May 9. . The result of the first contested parliamentary by-election' for some months was announced when Captain Basil Peto (Conservative) was returned as member for the King's Norton Division of Birmingham, the former member (Mr Ronald Cartland) having been reported missing at Dunkirk last June. An interesting feature of the election was the appearance of an Independent Pacifist candidate, Mr Stuart Morris, and of an "Independent Reprisals" candidate, Dr Smith, who pressed for retaliatory air attacks against German towns. It will be recalled that business and residential quarters in Birmingham have been heavily bombed. Both candidates suffered overwhelming'? defeat and forfeited their deposits. The result was: Captain Peto. 21,573; Dr Smith, 1696; Mr Morris. 1552.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24604, 12 May 1941, Page 6
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