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Show BRITISH ROLL UP LABOR VOTES Another Day's Struggle but a Repetition of Previous Day's Work. DISCOMFITURE OF THE UNIONISTS COMPLETE Friends of John Burns Wildly Celebrate His Election at Battersoa. LONDON, Jan. 17. The Lnborltcs and Liberals, aa a result ot yesterday's selection selec-tion nt Nowcastle-On Tync. each gained a seat. Both these seats formorly wero held by Unionists, with majorities majori-ties of 4000 and TO00, and the force of tho anti-Unionist blizzard can be gauged by the fact that the result which wns announced this morning gives the successful I-nborlte nnd Liberal contestants contest-ants majorities of 7000. American "Wins Out. Sir Charles Dllke, In the Fore9t of Dean, division of Gloucestershire, nnd Col. Saunderson, In North Armagh, were among the members of Parliament reelected re-elected today without opposition. J. II. Scavorns, the American, formerly of Boston, Mass., has been successful In capturing tho Brixton division of Lam-both, Lam-both, London, for the Liberals. Iondon Remains Unionist. Tho commercial heart of the United Kingdom remained faithful to the Unionist Union-ist cause, tho city of London returning return-ing A. G. GIbbs nnd Sir Edward Clarke with largo majorities, approximating approxi-mating 10,000 over their Liberal opponents. op-ponents. Somo of tho other Conservative London districts, llko Westminster, nnd provincial seats, like Oxford, where tho working class population Is small, managed man-aged to retain Unionist representatives. . Landslide Continues. Otherwise today's story of the struggle Is a repetition of yesterday's heavily Increased In-creased pollings of enormous labor votes and discomfiture of the Unionists, who did not gain a single seat In today's balloting, bal-loting, but lost twenty-two to the Liberals Lib-erals and Laborltes. The 247 seats already elected for the new Parliament aro distributed as follows: fol-lows: Liberals, 125; Unionists, 51; Laborltes, Labor-ltes, 2S; Nationalists, 3S. Solitary Unionist Gain. Tho solitary Unionist gain at Hastings since tho elections began Is met by a combined Liberal and Labor gain of eighty-nine seats. Tho elections In London Lon-don and Liverpool have not gone so heavily In favor of the Liberals aa did those at Manchester, but several seats wero won In London and two at Liverpool. Liver-pool. In most cases, however, the Unionists retained their seats with greatly great-ly reduced majorities. T. P. O'Connor, tho Nationalist, was ro-clected for tho Scotland division of Liverpool. At Bcrkcnhead tho Liberals alned a scat and one- at Edinburgh. The aborltea gained ono at Dundee. This Is regarded as an Important Indication of the drift of tho feeling In Scotland Former Secretaries Lose. Defeats of former cabinet sccrctarleH continue to be announced, Alfred Lyttle-ton. Lyttle-ton. Colonial Secretary In Mr. Balfour's Cabinet, and William Hayes Fisher, Financial Fi-nancial Secretary to the Treasury In 1002, bolng among those who lost their seats. William Ashmead Bartlctt - Burdett Coutts, Unionist, managed to maintain his seat for Westminster, but Sir Henry Seton-Karr was defeated In St Helens by Mr. Glover, a Laborlte. Great Scene at Battersea. Thero was a great scene at Battorsca tonight after the poll showing that John Burns waa elected was announced. Mr. Burns stood on tho balcony of the town hall on Lavender Hill, where he resides, wildly waving hl3 hat, while fully 20,000 of his supporters were along the hill aa wildly cheering. It waa a long time before be-fore Mr. Burns could got a hearing to announce the figures, Then ho exclaimed: "Now go and tell my wife " A few minutes afterward Mr Burns was escorted escort-ed shoulder high through the Battersea streets by thousands of workmen. Alter Hume-Long, former Chief Secretary Secre-tary for Ireland, who lost his scat for South Btistol Monday, was today elected to tho Unionist seat for South Dublin, where tho Unionist candidate had withdrawn with-drawn In his favor. |