Does it affect a candidate's chances if he is absent?
Captain Hacking was away in South Africa his wife sorried on" for him and hand, Mr. Linfield (Lib)
Chuveh-(Lab.), both in Jost their seats, Major! Ormesby-Gore retained his. Major Spears rushed home from and had a week's campaigning but lost his seat. Colonel MeDonnell reached ford from few days afore the Boll apparently _hopeless struggle with Labour, but he won. Miss Bondfield, who was in jection occurred, had only days cai igning and lost her she tak defeat badly.
Mr. Pat Collins (Lib.), the great showman, was defeated in Walsall Mr. H. Day, a well-known re producer, Won Central Southwark for Labour.
Sir Alfred Butt romped in at Tooting, while Sir Walter do Freee, helped by his wife (Vesta Tilley) swept all before him at Blackpool, hitherto held by a Liberal from Natal (Col, Meyler).
Duff Cooper, of film fame, provided the papers with endless photos of herself among the mill hands at Oldham and helped to get her husband in ssily, but Catherine Nesbitt, the actress, could not save her husband, Captai Ramage (Lib.) from defeat two barbers, who stood in London were defeated, Mr. Toan in Groydon and Mr. Archbold in Bal-ham; Mx Stewart, dretuer, was returned for St. Rollox. All three sre Labour candidates. 'A Labour taxi-cab driver failed in Fulham, Mr. Hareoprt Johnstone (Lib.), from whom the Conserva. tives won East Willesden, despite his striking success last year, was one of the tallest _memb" of the ast House, and one of the few who regularly wore a sible hat, won second prize in the Calcutta Sweep on the Derby this year. Mr. A MacLaren, returned for Burslem after being out of Parliament dura Socialist at Gateshead. This|motorcear and the effigy in. Down. 1s a Labour seat gained from the Liberals. Among the defeated per-|trstea ce" wes fron
haps none has had a harder time than Sir Donald Maclean. This The Light Side of Life most energetic of the pure We keep lots of them at the Zoo leaders, after -a long run of safety cages. But outside the cages at Peobl was defeated there and and on the roof-tops is quite another went to Kilmarnock, He was de-matter, One escaped from private "feated there last year and went to custody this week—a poor little Cardiff for this election and has be monkey rejoicing, so the newspapers defeated more severely than ey tell us, in the name of Joey. For Particularly cruel is the luck of 1-day or two he was @ curiosity for Years ago Mr. locally residing children only. And very young man then a reporter saw him. Joey has lantly as-since become famous. The "Daily sisted Mr. Lloyd Georg in passing Stunter" took him up and was fo the Insurance Act through. the owed by the heavyweight organs in House of Commons. turn... You could day after day see on his promotion to Gabinet rank, a them" capitulating, regretfully it] sepics of electoral misfortunes scemmay be, but none the less thorough-in public You might notice that 7 manchester Asquith got only 10 lines for now lost, he made impassioned outburst about the lant recovery, and hi speeches monstrous tendencies of his political some of the most effective in opponents, that Professor Biffkins, the recent session.
He to be lecturing on the Super-radio-activity commiserated on his physical bre cellular atomic corpuscles, had down, only three lines and the latest Turk-'The defeat of Mr. Prank Hodges ish machinations fresh from Mosul Lichfield is the more notable since Jjust a line and a half, but Joey got! the division contains a large slice of about half a column' by the star the Cannock Chase coalfields.
It [writer of each journal, who was told suggests that the minors still resent to "go all out" since ie public, lov. the Dawes report.
Although there fg no change in Streatham, it all out. tio sort of thing. So they dent significant that auch a section of We had Joey hour by hour. Pi Suburbia an avowed Communist tures of him, and of the publi should poll 3,204 votes in a three-'Then more pictures of Joey and cornered fight, but the local Mayor, the fire brigade, have stood quit boldly ut the polls. the Division Superintendent of Tom Mann went down at, Police, the residents who had Nott ingham, but the Parsee Com-Joey, the residents who had fed munist, Mr. Saklatvala, who is in-[the traps set for him, the food effec tensely disliked, has recaptured ed him, pictures of trees where Joey North Battersea. was, the thermometer which recor stock in trade is abuse of the Bri jed the night temperature which tish Empire and the Union Jack. would try his physical strength, the Election Peril Is and Wit rain gauge which told us whether got wet and then more pictures During the three-cornered fight in of Joey. At last even the greatest! Argyllshire, Mr.
Fred_Masquisten fof all_ great papers capitulated and (Conservative) and Sir
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