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Show S' IR ROBERT BORDEN, Unionist leader, whose government has been returned to power in Canada. - f $ I t XT UNIONISTS VICTORIOUS IN DOMION POLLING Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Anti-Conscription Anti-Conscription Policy Decisively De-cisively Rejected. OTTAWA, Out., Dec. IS (Tuesday The Union government has won a decisive de-cisive victory at the polls. At an early hour this morning virtually complete returns re-turns from the eastern provinces, and results re-sults not unite so complete from west of the great lakes, indicate that, apart from the soldiers' vote to be counted in January, Janu-ary, the government will have a majority In excess of forty. The provinces east of the Ottawa river more than verified the predictions of those who believed that the Fnionisls and liberals would break about even, but Ontario On-tario and the west proved a surprise. The opposit ion counted on at. least twenty seats from Ontario and obtained only half that number. Liberals thought they could count on not less than "fifteen seats in the east, hut up to 1 o'clock jMulloy of Prov-eneher. Prov-eneher. Man., was the only supporter of Sir Wilfrid aurier elected. Two or three seats In northern Alberta may still he in doubt, but there is little to indicate the possibility of moro than three, or four of the opposition being elected in western Canada. In Ontario seventy-two out of eighty-two eighty-two of the constituencies have been won by the "Unionists and all the mayors have been elected by ' large majorities. Sir Wilfrid l.aurler was returned in Quebec, east, by liOOO majority. In Quebec sixty-two out of the sixty-five sixty-five seats went into the Uheral column. Returns at ll!:lf a. m. follow: Union government, 133; opposition, 91; deferred, A. Incomplete or not heard from, one in Ontario, three in British Columbia and three in Alberta. |