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Show , oo- EU ELECTIONS mm close LONDON, Dec. 0 At the close of today's polling the comp.exlon of the houxe of commons strcxl: Government Coalition Liberals 10G, I-aborltes 20, Nationalists 2G. Total, 152 Opposition Unionists 147. A situation has developed almo' phenomenal in the closeness of the race between the government coalition coali-tion parties and the Unionists. The pendulum swung slightly toward the government today, and the result of three days' voting, In which 299 seats have been filled, gives the coalition oe more member than In the last parliament from the tamo constltuen- cies. Up to last night the Unionists had a gain of five. Thr returns tonL.ht showed the ; Unionists had tetained Sti IMen-: from the Laborltcs This borouvh. with the exception of the last election, has been Unionist flic - 10"G. I The Liberals pa'ned Somhwark ' (West). Burnley and Coventry, and the Laborites gained Woolwich nd Whitehaven, all from the Unionists, wh'lo this mornings re'iuns frra Sunderland sh"we l that tbo liral candidate. Greenwood and the Labor-He. Labor-He. Goldstone. had replaced tbe two ', Unionists there. The turning of the Mde toward Lib- eralism Is a surprise and a gr-U dis- I appointment for the Unlouit-, whr counted upon captu ax half a dzen seats from the enemy. The great- est surprise was in Coventry, because be-cause that is the seat of nio'or man- ' ufacturing, and the Protectionists h.-d put great stress on thHr plea that the reform would premt the grow- , Ing competition from American machines. ma-chines. . j The 'Llb"ra's hardly exacted t'win Rurnley, because th" S etnllt, llynd man, was In the field and hop?d to take ptrt of the labor vote. The Southwark confst was of the Interesting, the Llsernl ca"d'dte win ning by 12 votfs. The batt'e I" W ol wlch was one of the hardest. Will . j among them and these with the la-g I est circulation championed the Unh n ict cause, yet they were una' le f make imterial inroads In Ihe Llbe.a and 1 abor lines. : The betting 1n tbo stock exc'iang" was the roa1! lon'mnlntv wo t'd drr- , to C5 As 'h el c loo - p-op?' sd tho betting favo ed oig'itv, thi"i n!n - ly. It is row ornc"-f'r 1 that the v- , crniutnt will Imv- lUi in.tjor.ty. Crocks, a work In' ma'', who wns turned out In the livt election, recaptured recap-tured his seat by The Unionists etneont rated their beavy fire on JJ-'t'r rseo, but Jbn P.nrns. president of local cvrn-ment cvrn-ment hoird. aT.T.'n .virrr.''-cd tem. brlnln?: uv. his mnio py from 555 in the J3st rlecllon, f 1 -''2. A'n:ost crywh'or- ifvcr bnPots were e;st than In th- la't el.i'Ion, Mo'e Liberals than T'"l u ti's -" 'y d nn-pv frn-n he p 'lis V bfilt'ii ll o disiric.'s which rhnp-,-.' ! ih on lex-Ion?, lex-Ion?, lb Unlr.r.! t-i ma 'e -e'.tive f.'?lns in t-tehten th.i Liberals in twelve. Thf S rldt c?nd!f!nt"s In london did poorly, none commanding five hundred votes. The newspapers appear exercised over their surprisingly small Influence. Influ-ence. Almost all the most important |