Show LOSING GROUND IN N HA AGAINST LORDS LOR I S Unionists Gain Several Seats in n Parl ParlIament ament as Result of I Elections i f if a London ran Jan 15 The first engagement in the fight for i form a great gre t navy vy arid the supremacy of the lords as against free trade I o c reform of the house of lords and home rule ended tonight with neither party in a commanding position p L Time The standing of the various parties in including eluding sas follows Unionists 43 lIberals 5 37 laborites G 6 nationalists 5 Unionist gains galus 18 liberal gains 3 2 labor laborites laborites ites gains over liberals 1 no change I IOn iOn On the 12 1 seats contested In London the liberals hold arid the unionists five three of the latter bel being g gaIns In orth Lambeth and Fulham in n the pro provinces the unionists gained southwest M Manchester an c hes 1 Y Sails bury eser y tw two seats In I Yarmouth Glou I cester eS e y and t L 1 m and two seats In iii nath P i iThe The liberals won N west Darlinton and nd ire g ln was in iii east eust Manchir m The results or 1 the polling tend to in inform form onn the th t the 1 1 retain control of the gov On greatly reduced TM b 1 MR h have ve gaIned an t l of te seats although It sa then lb KJ elJ i they expected to take aw away y limp iii i crate out t the e ii altot f The Tho if t O it M t j 1 Il 1 on Fi il z 4 I r J i L 4 l le ly lk 7 f t e y y J 1 OC ft d k f c liBERAlS lOSING GROUND IN BA BAffLE TIlE AGAINST lORDS Continued From Page One the liberals The members of that party who bold seats won them today by ma ranging from O to t Oper O per cent below theIr majorities In 1900 except In Ina a few boroughs where special conditions figured In the campaign The popular votes polled by the liberals for the 12 London seats show a stronger hold on power than In the provinces The major majority It ity of the London boroughs were labor districts Of these the unionists carried five there being captured from the lib liberal libera eral era columns but b by small smaIl margins of Chamberlain Manchester and Birmingham give hea heavy Unionist t gains Birmingham has been strongly conservative largely the result of Joseph Chamberlains crusade for pro protection protection and tOday the unionists carried the city solidly by increasing majorities nearl nearly larger than In In Manchester the unionists Increased their vote for fr while the liberals still have five fhe of the six seats the liberal majori majorities ties were decreased nearly The most sweepIng change In London was In Fulham borough where the mIddle class population went enthusiastically for tariff reform giving M Hayes Haes Fisher a majority of 2000 Devonport where the big navy Issue was wiped out the liberal majority and returned two unIonists by Sir J Jackson and SIr C Kinloch Cooke Sir Henry Norman the liberal who Is well known In America and who recently was appointed assistant general was beaten at Wol South bya by a small majority In or order er to retain his place In the cabinet he will be nominated for another borough Waldorf Astor Beaten Waldorf Astor stor and Sir It 11 Mortimer Dur Durand Durand and the former ambassador to the United States who contested the two Plymouth seats as unionists were de dc fc ted but cut down that liberal majority from 2367 to DavIdson Daziel a promoter and at one onetime onetime time conspicuous In Wall street union unionIst 1st turned H Seaverns a liberal and former American from his seat eat from division or of Lambeth V the unionist who beat Winston Spencer Churchill in the Manchester of 1908 1903 ny by 4 44 H votes loses his seat to Sir G Kent lib liberal libera eral era by Right Rev G Windham who will be governor general of Canada Canad If the union unionIsts unionists take on the government carried his seat by a slightly Increased majority The liberals took away a thousand votes from SIr Gilbert Parker In the Gravesend district but he retains his seat as a unionist Russell flea Rea a prominent whose face was familiar at the recent peace conferences lost Gloucester to the unionist H Terrell J T T Lincoln liberal ousted H Pike P ase ono one ot of the most prominent union unionists from Darlington by 29 votes Pro Pre mier Sir E I Tennant lost his seat for Salisbury to the unionist G by votes Threatened The most niost exciting scenes occurred at where here a menacing crowd threat threatened threatened ened David chancellor of the exchequer comp compelling him to flee from a hall hail where he had been speaking under police protection much as he was driven from a meeting at Bir Birmingham mingham during the tho South African war when he escaped disguised asa as a pOlice pOliceman policeman man Part of the provocation for the hostility shown toward him was caused by the chancellors unusual course In addressing the voters on pOlling day which has never obtained before In England and which is considered by many unconstitutional His speech Included a prediction pf of disaster to the German fleet u if It fought the Brit British I Ish referring to th tho InvincIbility of the British navy he declared I If the German fleet In a moment of madness ever attacked Great Britain It would be at the bottom of the ocean In Ina ina a very few hours A big crowd waited outSide the hall ball and when the chancellor of the exchequer ap appeared appeared raIsed shouts of Traitor Pro Boer The chancellor retreated within the building and a cordon of police kept back the crowd The chief constable with an escort of police conducted Mr Lloyd George out of the back door and the party retreated a quarter of a mile along the railway where a small station was used as a refuge An automobile was tele telephoned ph phoned ned for and In the meantime the chan chancellor busIed himself in writing letters When the motor arrived he drove into town by a circuitous ous route Surprie for Unionists Grimsby furnished a great surprIse for It shIfted 2 2000 o votes and Its seat fron the unionist to the liberal column T E EWIng EWing WIng defeated Sir C Doughty a fore foremost foremost most unionist orator Th The streets were a almost most Impassable after dInner from throngs swarming In Into into to ge get the election returns Reports were road at the theatres and m music halls to big audiences but corn com compared pared with election night In American cities the occasion was tame and sub du dud d The polling was noteworthy from the thousands ds of automobiles employed In election dIstricts to carry voters to tM the polls Unionists being the party of the rich had by far the greater number of motors at their command Several cabinet members spoke before their constituents tonIght Premier As Asquith Asquith Foreign Secretary Edward Gray and Chancellor devoted speeches mainly to the governments mana management ement of the navy Winston Spencer Churchill presIdent of the board of trade at Dundee denounced the partY of privileges and class clasa |