THE CROYDON ELECTION.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12502, 31 March 1909, Page 3

THE CROYDON ELECTION.

TARIFF REFORMER RETURNED, THE DREADNOUGHT ISSUE. '..- [Peess Association— Ccptright. ] Received March 31, 1.25 a.m. • London, March 30. : The Croyden election, resulted: — Herman Hodge; Tariff Reformer, 11j989. : '-r^'^-^-^- ■<■■■<':■ - : : J. E. Raphael, Radical, 8041. Frank Smith, Socialist, 886. •'.':' The election was fought on the question of the immediate building of Dreadnoughts. ■. The. announcement of the . figures caused a sensation in the House of Commons during Mrßalfour's speech.