The Archive · 1930

THE BYE-ELECTION AT WEST FULHAM

London, Apr. 29.

The bye-election at West Fulham, jeansed cly the resignation of the Labour member, Mr. George Ernest Spero, on the ground of ill-health, is arousing unusual interest, in consequence of Mr. Arthur Gale, the Liberal candidate at. the general election, urging the Liberals to support the Tory candidate.

The members of the Labour and Conservative parties are now wrestle Up to the present the local n.embers of the Labour Party claim a victory in quantity and the Conservatives in quality of their Liberal The Labour Party have accepted the offers of assistance from four Liberal candidates in other divisions, while the Conservatives vaunt_ the support of the former Liberal Minister, the Rt, Hon, C. A. MeCurdy, now leader of the Empire Free Trade movement.

Anyway, it is alleged that the pact! of amity between Mr. Lloyd George Mr. Ramsay MacDonald obviously has not been ratified in West Fulham, The Dominions may be interest the fact that Lord Beaverbrook is a constituent of West Fulham. It was there that he drafted the first Empire trade scheme and submitted it to Mr. Bonar Law, the Premier in 1922, Reuter,

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