REDUCTION EXPECTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18865, 16 November 1935, Page 5

REDUCTION EXPECTED

GOVERNMENT MAJORITY LONDON PRESS VIEWS PARTY OFFERS REJECTED (Eloe. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) LONDON, Nov. 15. Tho Times, in a leading article, says: "Nobody doubted that there would be a large diminution in the National Government's abnormal majority secured in 1931. Issues, which were domestic—to an extent being parochial—have been burning questions behind the expected Labor gains, but there has been no real division of opinion throughout the country about Mr. Baldwin's main course whether at home or foreign, "The results already available show that tho electorate is in no mood to see party Government restored, when no one party can offer tho breadth and forbearance necessary to the safe development of a national policy." The Daily Mail says : "There is nothing to show that the Government will lack a fair working majority." The Daily Telegraph says:—"At least it has been established that there has been no landslide from the National Government and any hope the Laborites entertained of a majority is utterly extinguished." . Mr. Walter Elliot, at midnight, said that he regarded the results as definitely in favor of the Government, which should have a substantial working majority. Labor gained threo London seats, but the results of tho boroughs disappointed the party. Mr. Herbert Morrison admitted he had hoped that Labor would have done better. The biggest majority thus far is at Hendon, where Sir Reginald Blair (Conservative) inherits Sir Philip CunliffeLister's seat and 41,387 of his 51,000 majority. National Labor, which gained Ilkeston by two, votes in 1931, now suffers by a heavy swing back to Labor. With the return of many ex-members of Cabinet, Labor will have a far stronger front bench. KING KEPT IN TOUCH PROGRESS OF RESULTS DETAILS SENT TO PALACE LONDON, Nov. 15. "We want the latest election results for His Majesty," said a member of the King's staff telephoning to the Press Association from Sandringliam. Details have been telephoned to Sandringliam all night long from the Press Association's head office in Fleet Street over a private wire to the Palace. His Majesty also received half-hourly the state of the parties.