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Some Interesting Results. I CARDIFF (Central).-36,557. .,J C Gould (C Cn.) 8.;)-12 E. Edmunds (I.L.P.) .6 G. F. Forsdike (L. Cn.) ,112 :R. Hughes (Tnd. Cn.) 3,419 U. Cn. niajj. over Lab 3,879 CARDIFF (East).-30, 164. Sir W. H. Seager (L. On.) 7,963 Ixxrd C. Criehton-Stuart (U. Cn.) 5,987 -A. J. Williams (Lab.) 5,554 L. Cn. maj. over U. Cn. 1,985 CARDIFF (South) .-28,307. ;.J. H. Cory (U. Cn.) 7,922 J. T. Clatworthy (Lab.) 4.303 Ed. Curran (L. Cn.) 4,126 U. Cn. majority over Lab. 3,619 There were 5i spoiled votes. ME RTH Y R.-35,049. i- Edgar Jones (L. Cn.) 14,127 J. Winstone (Lab.) 12,682 Majority. 1,445 ABERDARE.-4i,661. C. B. Stanton (C.N.D. A" L.) 22,824 Rev. T. E. Nicholas (LhP.) 6,229 I. I. 16,595 NEWPORT.-40,146. Haslam (L. Cn.) 14,080 J. B. Bowen (Jah.) 10,234 B. Pardoe Thomas (Ind.) 674 L. Cn. maj. over Lao. 3,846 SWANSEA (East).-27,185. *T. J. Williams (L. Cn.) 11,071 David Wrilliams (l.L.P.) 6,341 Majority 4,730 SWANSEA (WOst).-34,389. ^ftiglit Hon. Sir A. Mond (L. Cn.) 8,579 David Davies (U. Cn.) 7,398 John Powles land (Lab.) .),;j10 L. Cn. maj. over U. Cn. 1,181 ANCLESEY.-25,836. Brig.-Gen. Sir Owen Thomas (Lab.). 9,038 *R.t. Hon. Sir Ellis Griffith (L. Cn.) 8,898 Majority .oo. 140 CARMARTHENSHIRE. Llanelly.-44657. ".J. Towyn Jones (L. Cn.) 16,344 Dr. J. H. Williams (Lab.) 14,409 Majority 1,935 CLAMORCAN. Aberavon.-30,.415. Major J. Edwards (L. Cil.) .oo. 13,635 R: Williams (Lab.) 7,758 T. "G. Jones (withdrew) 325 L. Cn. maj. over Lab 5,877 Caerphilly 32,790. A. Onions (Lab.) 11,496 W. Rees Kdmunds (L.) 9,482 Majority 2,014 Cower.-29,790. "John Witliams (Lab.) D. H. Williams (L. Cn.) 8,353 Majority 1.756 Pontypridd 34,778. Lieut. T. A. Lewis (L. Cn.) 13,327 D. L. Davies (Lab.) 10,152 Capt. A. Sea ton (withdrew) 260 L. Cn. maj. over Lah. 3,175 MONMOUTHSHIRE. Bedwellty 30,938. C. Edwards (Lab.) 11.730 Capt. W. H. Williams (L. Cn.) 10,170 Majority 1,563 Pont ypool.-30,002. Tom Griffiths (Lab.) 8,438 Sir Leonard Llewelyn (U. Cn.) 7.021 *Rt. Hon. R. McKenna (L. Cn.) 6,160 Lab. maj. over II. Cn 1,417 P E M B RO K ESH I R E.-42,808. Sir Evan Jones (L. Cn.) 19,200 Ivor G wynne (Lab 7,712 G. B. Thomas (Ind.) .397 LOn. maj. over Lab. 11,488 POPLAR (Bow and Bromley).-33,436. -Ma,ior R. Blair (U. ell.) 8,100 G. Lansbury (Lab.) 7,248 Mark Dalton (L.) .988 F. On. maj. over Lab. 861 ACCRINCTON.-42,160. Major E. Gray (U. Cn.) 13,808 Major Rt. Hon. Harold Baker (L.) 8,378 C. Roden Buxton (I.L.P.) 6,369 Wr. Hammond (N.P. Ind.) 728 r. Cn. maj. over Lib 5,430 BARROW-IN-FURNESS.—37,697. B. Chadwick (U. Cn.) 12,629 *C. Duncan (Lab.) 12,668 Majority 21 After a re-oount the result was:— B. Chadwick (U,.Cii.) 12,608 C. Duncan (Lab.) 12,309 Majority 299 BATLEY and MORLEY.-38,211. *Cerald France (L. Cn.) 13,519 Ben Turner (Lab.) 12.051 Majority 1,468 BIRMINGHAM (Ladywood).-33,330. Neville Chamberlain (U.Cn.) !),405 J. W. Kneeshaw- (I.L.P.) 2,572 Mrs. Corbett Ashley (L.) 1,554- U. Cn. maj. over I.L.P. 6,833 BLACKBURN (Two Members).—61,972. *Rt. Hon. Sir H. Norman (L. Cn.) 32,076 Com. Dean, V.O. (U. Cn.) 30,158 *Philip Snowden (I.L.P.) 15,274 L. Cn. maj. over I.L.P. 16;&)2 BRADFORD (East).-36,580. Capt. C. Loseby (C.X.D. and L.) 9,390 *F. W. vJowett (I.L.P.) 8,637 Sir W. Priestly (L.) 4,782 C.N.D. and L. maj. over I.L.P. 753 BRISTOL (East).-33,679. G. B. Britton (L. Cn.) 9,434 L. Bateman (I.L.P.) 8,135 *Rt. Hon. Sir C. Hobhouse (L.) 1,447 L. Cn. maj. over I.L.P. 1,299 BURNLEY.—50,870. Dan Irving (Soc. Lab.) .oo. 15,217 *Sir G. Thomas (L. Cn.) 12,289 J. H. Grey (L.) 8,825 Soe. Lab. maj. over U. On. 2,928 C 0 V E NT RY.—62,066. E. Manville (U. Cn.) 17,380 R. C. WaHhead (l.L.P.) 10,298 Sir C. Mansel (L.) .f,128 *D. M. Mason (Ind.) 3,145 U. Cn. maj. over I.L.P. 7,082 DERBY (Two Members).—61,538. H. TJiovnas (Lah.) 25,145 Ald. A. (Itid. [;.) 14,920 W. B. Rowbotham (L.) 13,408 Capt. A. Smith (N.D.P.) 13,012 Lab. inaj. over L 11,737 DEWSBURY.—25,103. Lieut.-Col. E. W. Pickering (D. Cn.) ï,H.;a Ben Riley (l.L.P.) 5,596 *Right Hon. W. Runciman (L.) 5,130 U. Cu. maio over LT, P 9 o.nt EAST HAM (South).-32,072. -A. Clement Hdwards (L. Cn.) 7,972 K. Hamlett (Ind.) 5.661 Hon. A. Henderson (Lab.) 5,024 L. Cn. maj. over Ind. 2.311 HALIFAX.-49,017. "Rt. Hon. J. H. Whitley (1.. Cn.) 22.136 A. McManus (Soc. and Lab.) 4,03(j Majority 18.100 H U DOE RSF I E LD.-56,200. Sir C. Sykes (1.. Cn.) 15,234 H. Snell d.L.P.) 12,737 E. Wroodhead (L.) .11,256 L. CII. maj. over T.L.P. 2,497 ILFORD 40,749. Sir Peter Griggs (U. Cn.) 15,870 H. Dunnico (Lab.) 4,(j21 T. H. Garside i.L.) 3,2(31 U. Cu. majority over Iab. 11,24D LEICESTER (West).-40,634. J. F. Green (C.N.D. and L.) 20,570 Ramsay Majority 14.223 MANCHESTER (Corton).-33,382. *Rl,ht Hoii. John Hodge (Lab.) 13,047 H. White (Ind.) 5,. 00;5 T. J. Murphy (Soc. Lab.) 1.300 —— Lab. maj. over Ind *.042 SM ET H WIC K.—32,453. J. C. Davison (Lab.) 9,389 Miss C. Pankhnrst (fnd.) 8,614 Majority 77.5 TOTTENHAM (South).-34,474. Major P. B. Malone (U. Cn.) 6,032 *SirL. Chiozza-Money (Lab.) ;3,779 A. E. Harvey (Ind. N. D. and L.) 1,916 A. E. Jay ID. S. and S.) 1.295 r. Cn. maj. over T,il) "">:3 WAKEFIELD.—24,467. Sir E. A. Brotherton (U. Cn.) 9,128 A. Bellamy (Lah.) 5.882 *Sir A. H. "Marshall (L.) 2,448 r. C11. maj. over Lab. 3.246 WALLSEND 42,900. M. T. Siinm (C.N.D. and L.) 10,246 J. Chapman (Lab.) 6,835 *R.ight. Hon. J. M. Robertson (L.) 3,047 C.N.D. and L. maj. over Lab. 3.411 INCE.-30;749. "Stephen Walsh (Lab.) 14.882 W. Paul (Soc. Ind.) 2,231 Majority 12.651 LEICESTERSH IRE. (Bosworth).-32,242. *Hon. H. P. McLaren (L. Cn-) 12.545 *Tom Richardson (LL-P.) 6,344 Majority .),)37 NOTlFOLK. King's Lynn.-33,349. "N. P. Jed roll (U. Cn.) 10.146 U. B. Walker (Lab.) (Merthyr man) 9,7*0 Majority 366 NORFOLK. Northern.-30,179. Com. Douglas King (U. On.) 9,274 "Xoet Buxton <L.) 9.061 Majority 213 EDINBURGH (Central).-30,867. W. Graham ( I. [,. P.) 7.159 J. Dobbie (U. Cn.) ii. 79.5 Majoritv 364 CLASCOW (Bridgeton).-37 ,980. *A. MacCullum Scott (L. Cn.) 10,887 J. Maxton (I.L.P.) 7,860 Miss E. Murray (Ind.) 991 L. Cn. maj. over I.L.P. 3,027 CLASCOW (She t t leston).-31,488. Rear-Admiral Adair (rll. Cn.) 9,901 J. WJieatley (l.L.P.) 9,827 Majority 74 CLASCOW (Corbals).-40,765. *Rt. Hon.-G. N. Barnes (Lab. Cn.) 14,247 J. Maclean (Lab.) 7,436 Majority 6,983 CLASCOW (Hillheao.- 26,798. Sir R. S. Home (U. Cn.) .12,803 .J. lzet.t (LL.P.) 4,186 Majority 8,617 CLASCOW (Camlachie).-37,319. *H. J. Mackinder (U. Cn.) 13,(545 H. B. Guthrie (LL.P. 7,192 D. Browning (L.) SUI) U. Cii. niai. over I.L.P. 6,453 CLASCOW (Covan).-31,652. Neil Mit(,Ieatt I. 9,577 A. McClure (I*. Cn.) 8,762 *D. T. Holmes (L.) 1.(578 l.L.P. maj. over U. ClI. *15 < CLASCOW (Cathcart).-34,293. *.1. W. Pratt (L. Cn.) 13.610 Dr. G. B. Clark (Lab.) 4,.t) Majority 8,121 CLASCOW (St. Rallax).-38,439. Hon. G. Murray (U. Cn.) 10,814 J. Stewart (l.L.P.) 6,147 *Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon Wood (L.) 1,521 ..lJ. C11. ma.j. over 2,790 CLASCOW (Springburn).—33,599. F. S. Macqnisten (U. Cn.) 10,786 G. D. Hardie (I.L.P.) 7,996 *W. M. R. Pringle (L.) 1,669 U. Oil. maj. f)vei- I.L.P 2,790 MONTROSE SURCS.-15,427. J. Leng Sturrock (L. Cn.) 9,309 H. N. Brailsford (l.L.P.) 2,940 Majority 6,869 FIFE (East). Sir A. Sprot (Un. U. Cit.) 8,996 *Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith iL.) 6,994 W. Prikhan] Morgan (Cud.) 591 U. F. Cn. maj. over L. 2,002 LANARK (Motherwell).-27,818. H. F. Nelson (D. Cn.) 6,972 *J. D. Miller CL.) 4,817 J. W. Newbold (La".) 4,135 Hugh Fergusson (Ind.) 1,923 tt r\- ■»• ■

Red Roses Across The Moon." BY IOAN." i believe Mr. Lloyd George sometimes gets in- toxicated with his own eloquence. His Govern- ment if returned to power are going to make the German people pay the la.st farthing. A large army of occupation will not be kept in Germany. She must pay, but she must not pay by dump- ing. She must pay in money and not in kind. And the bill is twenty thousand millions. And again, it is the intention of his Govern- ment, afways assuming he is returned to power, to see that the Kaiser is tried and the men who were responsible for the war with him are to be tried also. r do not think it has yet been de- cided who the judges are to he, but it is safe to assume that if men with such well-balanced in- tellects as C. B. Stanton's are elected to this dreadful and solemn position, the Kaiser and ms gang are sure of justice. Every enemy alien is to go. Britain is to be Britain for the British, and the Poles and the Russians and the hundred and one nationalities which have been fought for in the war are to be banished that is if a Lloyd George Government get,, its way. But to re- turn to our muttons, paying for the war. It is perfectly certain there is not enough gold in the world to pay .our own war bill. I am not count- ing the bills of the Allies. If indemnities arc to be paid in gold, then they will never be paid. How can they be paid w hen there is not enough gold to payr There are three ways in which Germany can be made to pay. In gold, in foreign securities, in goods. The gold may amount to two hundred millions, or even two hundred and fifty. But that isn't much when compared with the expenditure of the Allies. The war has cost Britain seven million a day, and German gold would only pay Great Britain for thirty or thirty-live days' expenditure. Let us demand the whoie of the gold from Germany, and then we commence a quarrel with France and Italy and America and Serbia and Rumania. And yet shared between them all the sum would be so infinitesimal that it would not be worth a volume of Omar or a lyric from William Morris or a play by Shakespeare. Put the gold theory on the shelf. We have knocked it out. Next come tho foreign securities of the Germans. These were not- e less than tl,500,000,000 before the war. That would pay the cost of the war to us alone for about two hundred days. It would pay nothing to our Allies or our dominions. Now we come to goods. Let us call them pro- ducts. Germany can pay us a great deal in that way, but by instalments, and at a certain cost. If the German people would not. pay in that way, or if their Government would not or could not make them, we should have to maintain in Germany a, very large army. If our Govern- ment or the Peace Council intend to maintain an army in Germany to enforce payment, then our Government has voted solidly for conscrip- tion. If we compel the German to pay in raw material it wiH mean an era of unemployment for us. We do not want her coal. To import coal would mean throwing our own miners out of work. In zinc and potash she is rich and we arc poor. She could pay in instalments for a generation, but would a Government have the courage to enforce these conditions on its peo- pled Will the people submit to these conditions, and in the event of them refusing to pay, is our Government prepared to enforce the peace con- ditions by keeping an army on the other side of the Rhine. And again, are our people ready and willing to submit to conscription so that Germany can be compelled to pay indemnities in instalments for the next generation. We should have a re- giment in every coal-mine and a. battalion in every toy factory, and the German would work under the shadow of a lie wis gun. It will not do. (>tir A l lie, d (.)ii' t She can furnish to us and our Allies—don't forget, our Allies—machinery, cotton goods, woollen goods, pianos, watches, drugs and dyes, if we could make them. There is to be no large army of occupation. Mr. Lloyd George has said it, and he knows everything. And for a genera- tion and more than a generation, the Germans, like lambs and doves, will be working for us. As the prophet said: Words, words, words." And the enforcing of a, huge indemnity is ex- ceedingly inconvenient for us. We shall always talk of Germany and Germany's trade. In short w e shall have Germany on the brain for years to come. But it is nice o think that the glut ill pianos will enable the editor to add to his office furniture a diverting musical instrument made in Germany. Considering domestic politics we see many ways of procuring money. I inn not. touching now the nationalisation of industries, because we have not to deal with a Socialist Government. We have to deal with a Government of Capital- ists of the rabid species. Consider the pensions paid to men who never earned them. Consider the thousands paid annually to iuen who do not need them. The gentleman across the table tells me that we are fortunate in having a crowned republic. We pay our crowned president a staggering sum for ruling us. Perhaps if we needed a king we should not object to paying him, but the appen- dages! I sometimes think that. madness rules the hour. Does the German eat his breakfast, as much as he gets, with any less relish because the Kaiser has tted across the bonier! Would we if we heard that the whole of our upper ten had Hown with the wings of a dove to healthier climes ? I am on the side of the c lass which produces the Edison and not 011 the side of the class which gave us the bourgeois. Where were the Neros born and the .Marquis do Sadist What class did Catherine of Russia spring from, and the lour English Georges?' Was Henry the Kighth born in humble circumstances !J Treacle was once the derision 01 the middle- Classes; it is now its mainstay. Where do our I thinker's come from ?—The common people. Have we ever heard of Wagner and Raffall Santi!J Of Abraham Lincoln, Christ and Socrates? Who discovered steam? Was it Warwick, or the Duke of Gloucester, or the KKing of Cambria? Who wrote the plays of Shakespeare and the songs of Milton, and the works of Dickens, and Ah! qu'elle est belle la Marguerite ? Who are the men who go to the sea in ships? What class builds the mighty ocean liners Who made our buildings, our motor-cars and tele- phones Who made the war? Who wrote the French Revolution," the Duke of Cumber- land? or was it Thomas Carlyle of Eiiiiisfeeliiii ? Did Thomas Carlyle belong to the aristocracy? The people make the ships and the trains and the telescopes, but the people find 110 time to read Rabelias. They are hounded, they are sweated, they are derided and they never hear of Abelanl and Heloise, nor of the Canterbury Tales or the monuments of Ruskin. nor the philosophy of Bacon or the songs of Herrick, nor the Tales of the Border," nor the fancieR of Lewis Carroll. They have no time to think or read or play. Worry takes the roses from their cheeks. and

I Housing and Tuberculosis. I MEDICAL OFFICER'S INDICTMENT IN LLANTRISANT DISTRICT. I A CALL TO LABOUR. Now that the General Election is over, the Labour Movement in this District should devote itseli to the local elections, which will take place in March or April next. That there is work for Labour to do appears to be emphasised by the Medical Officer of Health's Report for 1917. After showing that the number of cases of tuberculosis notified in 1917 was 36, being an increase of 22 over 1916 (which, he points out, is not an advertisement for all the Tuberculosis Act is doing with its .many costly institutions), lie presents the following strong indictment of the conditions which exist in the district. IOVERCROWDINC. "There is, however, one aspect of the tuber- culosis question that in iiiv opinion is not suffi- ciently recognised in the administration of the tuberculosis regulations, or rather, I should say, if the fact is recognised it is not insisted on for the simple reason that there are no means of insisting on it. L refer to tlie, 'kiiviroiimeiit' of the patient suffering from tuberculosis. By environment I mean house accommodation (air- space, light, ventilation, water-supply), and locality (soil, elevation, aspect, etc.) which UIl- doubtedly are of the first importance in making any attempt to stamp out the fell disease. It is generally agreed that anyone suffering from tuberculosis should have all the fresh air, light and adequate water-supply (for baths as well as drinking purposes) at all times to give him a fighting chance of combating the disease. Does he get this fighting chance in this district ? Em- phatically no! Why? Because in most instances his environment is rotten. He does not get any- thing like an adequate supply of these things. Again why ? Because tho thing called a house in which he has to live in a. very large propor- tion of instances is crannied for room, with little light, badly ventilated, very frequently on bad soil, often damp and dilapidate and with a water-supply quite inaeqduate. Where the cot- tages are of a better class they are nearly always overcrowded, with frequently two families living in one cottage. Such is the environment of a large proportion of tuberculosis subjects, which is nothing less than a scandal of the very sad- dest description. ft appears to me clear that before we can hope for any material improve- ment in the incidence of the disease suitable houses in healthy localities must be available. All old dilapidated houses should be demolished and new ones erected in their stead, with all necessary air-space, light, water-supply, etc., and it should only be permissible for anyone to build on good soil. not 011 any old ground that is too bad for any other uurposo, as so frequently has been the practice." This is a serious indictment, which everyone acquainted with the district knows to be true. While such conditions continue to obtain, shame not honour, must be the reward of all move- ments and eersorw, who, taking a part in the public affairs of the district, are not doing all in their I}{)\\("r to chango these conditions for the better. W hat is the Trades and Labour Council doing? Is it pressing this picture of ugliness and death upon tho attention of the District. Council ? The Medical Officer of Health I is doing his part. Go you and do yours! ISOLATION HOSPITAL ALMOST IDLE. Under the heading Isolation Hospital," the Medical Officer says:- I have already spoken of the desirability of admitting other cases than enteric fever and diptheria to this hospital, and I cannot too strongly advocate that more use should be made of the accommodation the institution affords with its splendid healthy situation and perma- nent staff tor the advantage of the public who maintai n it. Only 19 cases for the year ad- IHittd and, as most years, the number is much the same, it means that for the greater part of the time the place is empty of patients, the beds never half occupied and the staff doing nothing but keeping the place in order (waiting for something to turn up)." Although only 19 cases were admitted to the Isolation Hospital, according to the Medical Officer s Report there were 325 cases of infec- tious eases notified during the year, within the district. PUERPERAL FEVER TREATMENT. tuder the heading of Puerperal Fever, the Medical Officer makes further reference to hous- ing and the fsloation Hospital. Here it is:- One death was due to puerperal fever and three to scepticamia. Hhere again the poor hous- ing accommodation plays an important part. Most of the cottages in which puerperal fever occurs are, besides being directly accountable for the disease, absolutely unfitted to treat a ease ot the kind ill, [lllay here say that I have several times suggested that where suitable accommodation and treatment cannot be pro- vided for such cases in tljeir homes, that they should be admitted to the Rhiwfelin Isolation Hospital for treatment. The late Mr. Godfrey Clark was greatly in favotir of admitting them, and after a discussion at the hospital your coun- cil agreed to do so, but subsequently rescinded their consent without giving any reason for such a change of front. I must, again take the op- portunity of stating that in my opinion such | cases should be admitted, and I know it is the w ish oi the ratepayers that more use should be made of the hospital for the good of the commu- nity." THE REMEDY. hat a contempt tor human life and human snflering is disclosed by these quotations, and it is not a contempt and indifference born of the war, it existed previous to the war as those who itave had tho melancholy pleasure of going thiough Medical Officers' reports for previous years are aware. I he conditions indicated in the quotations would not bo allowed to exist upon any quotations amongst the wealthy classes. Why are they allowed to exist amongst the working classes Is it not because the work- ing classes have hitherto left the administration oi local affairs in the hands of the other classes with such tragic results, and is not the remedy to be found in the taking over of the District Council administration by the working-classes of the District: a District Council, with a Labour majority inspired by a determination to enforce existing 1a.ws in respect of housing, 'town plan- ning, food, sanitation and so on would produce such a revolution in our local life as would make the conditions mentioned by the Medical Officer a thing of the shameful and hateful past. 'It is time the Trades and Labour Counlil were up and doing.

smoke and dust take the shimmer from their hair and the brightness from their eyes and the colour from their lips. Who made our cathedrals and palaces?—the people. Who fought the war r-the people. And who s-bnll n-n- f™- JfO +1, M,1 T 1