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Show oo COALITION LEADING i Two Unionists Are De. feated by. Liberal and Laborite. London, Doe. f. The return of a , further list of unopposed Pedmond-Ites Pedmond-Ites this afternoon sent the Coalltlon-, Coalltlon-, lts again to the front with a total ' of 131 seats in the new parliament to i 12S now held by the Unionists I The status of the parlies is as f.d- lows. i Government Coalition Liberals 00, ! Irish Nationalists 23, labor members . 10. Total, 131. j Opposition Unionists I2S. i John Sharp lligham of the Sowerby , division of York was the so'e Liberal returned unopposed. ; The prominent feature in today's early returns In the parliamentary elections was the capture of Sunderland Sunder-land by the coalition parties. T. Hamar Greenwood, rhe Canadian Liberal, who returns to the house of ; commons after an absence of less i than a year, and Frank Goldstone, the 1 Lilorlte, turned ut the two I'nlonis; members, S. Storey, Independent tar-' Iff reformer, and J. Knott, who were elected last January by majorities of 741 and 1,212 respectively. ( The turnover Is attributed in part i at least to the bitterness of the boil- j c-r makers in the Sunderland district, ' who were locked out some months ago. The results In Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1 also made known today, show no change, 13. Shortt, Liberal, being returned re-turned by n majority of 3.8C1. and W. Hudson, Ijibotlte, being re-elected with 3.532 votes to spare. . m m. W 1 1 r m . .' I i s J".-. ; .- .'. l ' 1 '. 1 v rm- |