Sweeping Successes of Left Parties Throughout the Country, but Paris Loyal to M. jincare: M, Herriot the Probable Premier of the Radical Party Paris, May 11.
The general elections to-day coincided with the Joan of Ave. fete-day. They were carried out in fine weather. There was heavy polling. The earliest returns are in favour of the Government.
May 12.
Provisional estimates on the elections indicate that the parties of the left are gaining some ground, principally in the South, which is a recognized Radical stronghold, but there is no marked change in the state of the parties.
Voting ix considerably heavier than at the Jast election, M, Maginot, Minister of War, M. of the Liberated ex-Premier, M. Briand, have all been elected, didates returned, while M. Sach Lecointe, the aviator; M. Worth, the head of the dress-making firm; M. Philippe Barres and his son, M. Maurice Barres. are among those defeated.
The money. market's cense of an impending change is evidenced by: the remarkable fall of- the frane from 73 to 78 for £1 and from 16.75 to over 18 for $1.
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