The Government candidate, Mr. W. MeNair Snadden, scored an unexpected victory today, by a majority of 1,318, over the Duchess of Atholl, who was standing as an Independent candidate in the Kinross and West Perthshire by-election.
The figures were: Mr. Snadden, 11,708; the Duchess of Atholl, 10,495.
The Duchess, who had been a member for the Kinross and Western division of Perth since December. 1923, recently resigned over disagreement with the Prime Minister's foreign policy.
She is a prominent sympsthiser of the Spanish Government and has, thereby, earned the sobriquet of the "Red Duchess."—Reuter,
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