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Show LABOR IS BEALT BLOW IN ENGLAND GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER FIFTEENTH WILL 8EE HEAVY VOTE Local Balloting Regarded as Index to Prevalent Political Attitude; London Is Hostile to Working Party London. Stunned by tho heavy downfall of tholr candidates Intho municipal oloctlons throughout England Eng-land Wednesday, tho Lnborltos intonsl-Ued intonsl-Ued their political cnmpnlgn with tho hopo of making n better showing In tho genoral election for parliament Nov. 15. In Wednesday's balloting tho Labor-ltes Labor-ltes lost 140 seats which thoy hnd pro vlously hold In Undon nnd about ICO seats which thoy had occuplod ln 80 boroughs outsldo the capital for .tho most part ln such lurgo cities as Manchester, Llvorpool, IUrminghatn, Dorhy, Nottingham, Plymouth, Southhampton South-hampton and Portsmouth. Although nominally considered purely municipal Issjos, tho local contests con-tests somo times nro an indexto existing ex-isting poltlcal fooling. This tlmo tho rncoi were wntchod with intense cur-pislty cur-pislty us a posslblo forecast of labor's chances In tho coming general election. elec-tion. Tho outcome of uio local olectlons has certainly made Lnbor'B prospect rr parliament very discouraging. In sorao Instances Laborlto representation repre-sentation was completely wiped out ln the municipal elections, but at othor I'Olla Labor hold its own and evon made q few gains. London was lntonsoly hostllo to La bo. Tho genoral feeling In the capital capi-tal wns manifested by tho way tho voters vot-ers flocked to the polls despite tho raw wind and furious rain. Tho partisan Interest for nnd ngulnst Labor is a little stronger today to-day than the attention foctissed on tho wrangle botweon tho Lloyd Georgian Liberals nnd tho Conservatives. Tho political wrltors ronlly do not seem to know what Is going on behind tho scones. Somo of them say Sir Gonrgo Voungor litis won his fight and that Moyd Georgo has decided to abandon his Idoa of "spreading tho war against tho conservative. Othors do-claro do-claro Just as omphutlcally thnt tho fallon promlor has takon a vory determined deter-mined attitude and has doclded to nimlnate additional candid a tos against Conservatives. On tho whole, howovor, tho gonornl tendoncy Is toward to-ward tho bollcf that tho Lloyd Georgo throat of reprisals will not bo carried out. Somo observers profess to seo n renewal of harmony botweon Lloyd Gojrgo and his form or colloagues In tho stntomont mado Wodnesday by Sir llbort S. Horne, who nlthough ho wns ono of tho mist faithful followers of thq little Welshman, lntormod n Glnsglow uudlonco ho was still a Unionist, and thnt if eloctod he would oil on tho Unionist Bide of tho liouso nnd glvo his genoral support to Prime Minister Iionar Law. The Ulnoss of Lloyd Goorge attracts much attention. Ills cold and throut trouhlo la said by somo to really bo n symptom of rundown health duo to fatlguo. That ho Is tired was obvious ob-vious to thoso who saw him during his rocont visit to Scotland. |