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13 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929, LYMORE HALL TO BE THE ATTEMPT ON THE ITALIAN PRINCE. WALL STREET STEADIER. Banks to the Rescue COAL PROPOSALS NEXT WEEK. Miners Prepare to Consult the Rank and File. HAZARDS OF A BALLOT VOTE.

PREMIER SAILS I FOR HOME. i Enthusiastic Praise for Canada. FAREWELL MESSAGE. Tribute from Canadian MR. MOSES WINS AT PLYMOUTH.

Petition Fails. SCENES IN AND OUT OF COURT. Judge's Voice Drowned by Crowd's Cheers. The petition to unseat Mr. J.

J. H. Moses, th Labour member for the Drake Division of Plymouth, on the grounds of bribery and corrupt practices by his agents was dismissed with costs yesterday bv Mr. Justice Swift and Mr. Justice Talbot.

The crowinK interest which the Critical CORRESPONDENT.) policy it is to adopt towards employers who reduce wages. The negotiations ended on Monday, when the unions announced that their ballot vote had turned down the employers' proposal of a wages reduction of 8.3 per cent, but no concerted action has yet been taken by the employers to put the reduction i-ito force. One or two individual firms have done so, and their workpeople will probably leave work. The unions have to decide to-day whether to pursue this piecemeal Hfv of resistance or to make a general stand. The Managers' and Overlookers' Society, which is acting apart from the other unions, is calling out all its members at the end of the week after next in support of its members in the Spen Vallev who are under notice of reductions.

Yesterday it was announced that the operatives at a mill at Denholme, who presented themselves for work on new terms, but could not start owing to the overlookers' refusal, are to receive unemployment benefit. This, however, applies only to workpeople ready to accept lower wages who are prevented from working owing to the refusal of ethers. COTTON WAGES. The Central Council of the Weavers' Amalgamation meets again to-day to discuss the much-debated resolution from Colne that an application should be made to the employers for a wages increase of 25 per cent on list prices. It is an important meeting, for a deci- sion one way or the other can scarcely jbc put off any longer.

There have already been three meetings on the question in the last six weeks. The matter resolves itself into a strong difference of opinion between the leaders of the Amalgamation and the rank-and-file delegates. The resentment of the latter at the wages reduction granted by the arbitration board is so strong that they have swung to the extreme of demanding the restoration tut. uinciais see tnat a movement of this kind may bring the Amalgamation into very deep water indeed. They believe that this is essentially a moment when it is better to suffer patiently than to run into an industrial dispute.

But it will not be easv to guide the weavers' delegates into" the moderate course of deferring any action on wages until the Government Committee of Inquiry has reported, and they have seen what influence the proposals for the revival of the trade whinh fhn union? are making to that committee nave nad on the policy of the Govern- ment. RAILWAY WAGES The delegate conferences of the three railway unions have now accepted the agreement with the railway companies by which the 2 per cent wages cut will continue until next Mav when it will be wtrprf 1 be ifestoref. and for a turtner Elx months neither side shall move for an alteration of waees. In all three delegate conferences there has been a strong undercurrent of opposition to the agreement. Curiously enough, the least opposition was revealed at the conference of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, which was the last to agree to the meeting with the companies at which the compromise was arranged.

At the Associated Society's conference yesterday the agreement was I approved by 54 votes to five, five others oeing neutral. J.ne national union ot Railwaymen had a much closer vote 45 Wages To-day. DEMOLISHED. Antique Dealer's Purchase for 3,500. FOR AMERICA? (From our Correspondent.) Welshpool, Friday.

Lymore Hall, the Earl of Powis's seventeenth-century black-and-white mansion at Montgomery, which the Office of Works declined to accept as i gift for public preservation, was sold to-day by auction by Messrs. Harrois at Montgomery for demolition. It was bousht bv Mr. Frederick E. Anderson, antique dealer, Welshpool, for 3,500, and he afterwards informed me that much of the extremely valuable oak panellings and other features, including a magnificent carved Elizabethan staircase, are likely to go to America.

Mr. Anderson said he had no commission to buy, but hoped he would be able tu dispose of the entire mansion in one lot, as it should appeal to people in search of an historic interior of magnificent oak. American buyers were present to-daj, but weie mainly after the magnificent staircase and the panellings of individual looms, the piopeity having been catalogued in GG lots if not sold as a whole. The auctioneer asked the pur chaser if he would reofier some ot the lots, as people had come from all parts of the country, and when lie declined disappointment was expressed. Anonymous Donor's Offer.

A big offer for the Elizabethan staircase, which was made privately, was also refused, the intending buyer, it is understood, representing an American museum. Lymore Hall was built in 1C75 after the" demolition of Montsmnei Cattle as a home for Edwaid, third eail of Cher-bury. Before deciding to offer it for sale Lord Powia offered it as a free gift to the town if the Office of Works would repair it. tie also ottered to Jet it lor the nominal rent of 1 per annum to any one who would repair and nreserve it. Messrs.

Harrods to-day announced that a last effort was made to save it vester- day. a Hampshire gentleman, who anonymous, offered to give the Office of Works or the National Trust for the Preservation of Ancient Monu ments the sum of 10.000 if they would accept Lord Powis's gift. It is estimated that restoration and preservation would cost 20.000, and the Office of Works and the Iational Tiust declined this last Offer. Mr. F.

E. Anderson is a leading antique dealer with important American connections. He is himself a tenant fit the Earl of Powis. whose chief seat, Powis Castle, is at Welshpool. The auctioneer announced to-day that the Earl of Powis was far too upset, to attend the sale.

He had done more than most people would have done to preserve the mansion, and it was better to get the value of it than to let it fall into complete ruin. The sale catalogue yesterday warned the public against the danger of crowding the floors of Lymore, and it is recalled that when the "public was admitted to a bazaar in the old burgess hall of Lymore a few venrs ago the Earl and about twenty people fell lulu a UCiiUJ RIOTS BY BERLIN CHILDREN. Too Mild Entertainments Resented. (From our onn Correspondent.) Berlin, Friday. The unprecedented happenine of a detachment of police being called out to quell a riot of children has occurred twice within the laBt 24 hours in Berlin.

At a kinema in the suburb of Schone-berg, where an instructional film and a lecture on coalmining were announced, the lecturer turned out to be possessed only of magic-lantern slides. About 300 boys and girls from 10 to 15 years of age were present. After early cries of protest that the picture did not move, one boy threw his chair at the lecturer. This was the signal for a general uprising, led by a 74-year-old member of the Communist Youth movement, who was obviously well versed in- tactics. Glases and bottles from the kinema buffet were hurled at the lecturer, while other children slashed the upholstery with their pocket-knives and broke "up the woodwork of the chairs.

In the second case, which happened in a large dance-hall of a restaurant in the east end the Frederickstrasse, the unhaopy would-be entertainer had to escape through a bark entrance. He had ventured to offer a marionette phow, a species of glorified Punch and Judy entertainment. After a few howls of protest at the old-fashioned show, boys and girls tried to climb tipon the nlatform to break up the marionettes. In this case a number of parents were also present, but they rrnfesed to be entirely against the attacks of their offspring. FIRE DAMAGE AT FILM STUDIO.

Caretakers Dash to Save Children. Fire broke out late last night in stables adjoining Weir House film studio, near Teddington Lock, Richmond. The flames gained a hold quickly, and the Teddington Fire Brigade concentrated their attention on preventing the flames spreading to the whole of the studio and a house close by, the occupants of which were told to leave. The flames did actually epread from the stable to a wing of the studio, which was considerably damaged. The task of the firemen ws made difficult by the falling of huge plates of glass which comprised the studio roof, and freauent loud crashes were heard, followed by bursts of sparks and flames into the air.

When the outbreak was discovered the caretaker of the studio, Mr. H. Gilby, an. ex-policeman, was visiting friends soma distant dashed up to ths studio, aad made his way through fire and emok to bis house at the back. where his six children were sleeping.

The tire was burning nercaly tne loft," he told a Press Association reporter, "and I had a narrow escape from being hit by the falling glass and 1 amine timber, but I cot to rav children and carried them to aafety." The studio had just been prepared for the arodaetion of a biz film, and work was to hare- begun immediately. Bitter Outburst in Italy. ATTACK ON FRANCE. Complaint of Asylum for. Anti-Fascists.

(From our Correspondent.) Rome, Friday. -As always happens after soma special activity of Italian exiles ia Paris, France is reproached by ths Fascist Government for the asylum offered to anti-Fascists who come over, the border. To-night's attack in th semi-official Giornale d'ltalia," however, is so strong as possibly to imperil the Franco-Italian naval conversations that are about tc begin. Our words are directed to the rench Government and nation," says the writer, Signor Gayda. "For her owu defence Italy has the duty of declaring categorically that this protective tolerance given to anti-Fascist exilea on French territory has become a fundamental problem of her relation with France." After stating that "we expect an immediate answer," the writer closes: It really seems that France does not intend to regulate her debt of loyalty and peace to Italy.

For seven years we have associated tho question of exiles with good Franco-Italian relations, but in these seven years anti-Fascist organisations in Paris have increased and multiplied. Now wo ask, Does France intend to continue to sponsor this movement whose aims are directed against the Italian State? To-day one can no longer quibble. It is not friendship that is involved bnti the clarity of the Franco-Italian situation." Demand for Trial in Italy. Yesterday's Popolo di Roma" ask that De Itosa should be tried in Italy, in spite of the fact that no article in international law provides for tho extradition of a criminal from the country in which ho committed tho crime to the country of the person; against whom the crime was directed As there is no capital punishment ia Belgium the Fascist outcry here is all the stronger, and it seems probable that De Rosa will be tried by a special tribunal even in his absence, according to article 4 of the Italian penal code, which provides for such an; emergency. The death penalty would be given, according to the special Law; for the Defence of the State made inj 1928, though, of course, it could nolj be put into execution unless De Rooa were one day to return to Italy.

A group of young students marched tr. TJ 1 l. i J. and began demonstrating, but wer rapidly dispersed by the police. The'Tevere" has a large cartoon; in which smart Fascists snow Dam Europe a large monster labelled "Anti-Fascist," from which she turns away, unwilling to see jt.

It is learned here that De Rosa lefl Italy only last year, without a passport, by ski-ing across the Alps. Ho had been a student at Turin previously and a friend of the late Piero Gobetti, leader of the Liberal Republican group in that city. PRINCE HUMBERTS RETURN. Strict Precautions on His Leaving Brussels. (Reuter's Telegram.) Brussels.

Fhiday. On the occasion of the return home ot the Crown Prince of Italy this evening the fctrictest measures were taken to avoid any incident Orders were given that the station square should be. left entirely empty, and the crowds were kept back by barriers. The station Jtseif wag decorated with shields and flaga of the Belgian and Italian colours At 6 25 this evening the Prince, preceded by his equerries and accompanied by the members of the Koyal Family entered the station. The Prince received a thunderous ovation from the crowds After the royal peraonagea came th Ministers, Mgr.

Micara, the Papal Nuncio, and the Grand Marshal and Marshal ot the Court. The Grenadiers struck no the P.oya! Italian march, and a child offered a bouquet of flowers to Princess Marie Jose. Members of the Italian colony kept up a never ceasing shout ot Viva." Military searchlights followed the progress of the royal "party to tha train. Opposite his carrir.ge, wbih ia the last on the special train, the Prince kissed Princes Marie JosS on both cheeks, and then bent and ki.sed her hand. Then he kieed the hand of the Queen, and took leave of the Duchess of Brabant, the King, and the Princes.

HU Koyal Hiahness also shook hands with tho Ministers and other authorities. Again he kissed his fiancee, and stepped into his carriage. The train steamed out at 6 30 exactly, the Prince remaining on tha rear platform waving his white-gloved hand. SIR ERIC DRUMMOND'S VISIT TO ROME. The Day After Fascist Gala.

(From onr own Correspondent.) Paeis, Feidat. It is now announced ia the "QZuvre" that Sir Eric Drummorid, Secretary General of the League of Nations, will not be in Rome on October 2, when a celebration of the. anniversary of the Fascist inarch oa Rome -will take place, bnt that hi visits, which is not connected with, the bration, will actually fall on October SMALL INVESTORS CRUELLY HIT. No Brokers Bankrupt. (From our own Correspondent.) New York, Friday.

Unprecedented support by a group of America's largest banks acting in concert prevented a repetition to-day of the debacle which yesterday struck Wall Street, wiping out many hundreds of millions of dollars of paper profits. The bankers' pool had large sums available for use in buying stocks which seemed declining unreasonably and dangerously in price. The action of the bankers, headed by J. P. Morgan and Co.

and including representatives of the National City Bank, the Chase National, Guaranty Trust, and Bankers' Trust, restored confidence among traders who yesterday indulged in an orgy of hysterical selling which might have precipitated a panic in the days before the creation of the Federal Reserve system in 1913. There was still some distress telling" to-day, and prices on the whole went down slightly, but the universal feeling was that the bankers had saved the market. They were aided by the big brokerage houses, which, acting by agreement, sent out reassuring messages to their customers, saying that fundamental business conditions were sound, and that the recession had been much more violent than was justified by the facts. Confidence was also aided by the entrance of investment trusts into the market, putting large amounts of their surplus funds into stocks picked up at bargain prices from fear-stricken gamblers. Long Overdue.

Despite the fact that general business conditions are sound, and although nearly every important financier to-day issued a reassuring message, there is no doubt that yesterday's decline was long overdue, though few expected it to be so violent. Bear interests helped to depress the market, but there was plenty of reason for the decline without their professional efforts. Whether or not inflation has existed in the technical sense, America for the past year and more has been in the grip of an hysterical wave of speculation which is only comparable to the Mississippi Bubble or Holland's famous runaway market in tulip bulbs. Driven upward by the activities of gamblers rather than investors, the most favoured stocks had reached a point where the annual returns were much less than savings banks interest rates. Millions of American wage-earners or poorly paid professional workers had invested all, or a large part of, their accumulated funds in carrying stocks on margin, and these are tne persont who were wiped out, eitner in yesterday's decline or in other recent reactions.

The stock market had absorbed funds needed for legitimate business: the building of houses, for example, had been curtailed throughout the country because of the difficulty of obtaining money, except at exorbitant rates. For some time before yesterday foreign speculators in American stocks had been disposing of their holdings, and foreign short-time credits attracted to America by the high interest rate on money for speculative purposes had been flowing back to the countries of their origin. RALLY, REACTION, AND RECOVERY. (Reuters Telegram.) New Yobk, Fp.idav. Early prices on the Stock Exchange showed a good rally as the bears covered to take profits and bargain-hunters picked up large blocks of stocks at what appeared to be rock-bottom prices.

The rally, however, was not long lived, and by noon the tendency was again downward with the volume of business accelerating so rapidly that the tape machine was again an "hour late. ao late was the tape machine yesteriay that the full extent of the market slump did not reach the general public until it had had an opportunity to scan the morning papers, which printed full lists of the appalling declines in prices during yesterday's debacle. Several hundred extra police were drafted into the financial district to-day as a nrecaution against possible disturbances. By lunch-time the floor of the exchange was again a bedlam and the roar of the voices of the excited brokers struggling to execute orders rose into one great volume of Found that was plainly audible to the crowds which filled the- streets around the building. At the same time, however, the demoralisation of yesterday was lacking and business proceeded in a more orderly manner.

At eleven o'clock in the morning it was announced that all transactions in yesterday's record-hreakine dav had been only cleared and that bII the brokerage houses had been able to matte proper deliveries, thus confirming the belief expressed yesterday by bankers th.it in spite of the volume of the break Wall Street was not in difficulties. Mire confidence was manifest late, in the afternoon, on a growing feeling sha the market had passed through its of liquidation, and prices moved generally upwards at the close. Mr. Hoover's Statement to Press. Wasickgtox, FaroAr.

President Hoover believes that the fundamental structure of the country is on a very sound basis. The President made this statement in reply to a question by newspaper men at the bi-weekly conference. He said The fundamental business of the country that is. the production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous IN LONDON. In London yesterday the street dealings in New York favourites were resumed on a heavy scale.

Prices began above Thursday's close in New-York, and rose during the trading, but reacted from the best before the finish. An article by a City correspondent appears on page 24. Conservative Leader. (Press Association Foreign Special.) Quebec, Friday. Following is Mr.

Ramsay MacDonald's farewell message to Canada on his embarking in the liner Duchess of York this evening As I step aboard the Fteanier which is to take me home I feel I cannot leave you without some words of gratitude. It has not been possihle for me on this occasion to do more than make a hurried visit to Ontario and Quebec Little of my time is now my own. and when my official woik is done the dav as a rule is also clone. The invigorating qualities of Canada have been favourue themes of mine after each stay amongst you, and at the end of these brief tlays praise them once more. "I have been in new fields this time getting just a peep at them, and must return to see more of them.

1 have afresh the impression of vour restful scene, your bracing faith, "and your confident enemy. Your three centuries sit lightly upon you. You aie the heir to splendid civilisations and can only wish that your futuie may be worthy of its eaily promise. The supieme truncation of the Common wealth of Nations to which vou and 1 are proud to belong is its contribution to tne turtnerance of world peace, and I am glad to find that no part of his Majesty's realm is more firmly wedded to tnat weal than Canada." MR. BENNETT'S MESSAGE.

Mr. Bennett, Leader of the Opposition the Dominion House of Commons, has sent the following message to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald In my judgment you may leave this continent with the certain" knowledge that your visit has contributed greatly to the improvement of relations between our Empire and the neighbouring Republic, and that you have left with all those with whom you came in contact a permanent impression of a great British statesman, the purity of whose motives and the sincerity of whose efforts for promoting world peace are beyond question. Your personal charm and vour attitude of friendliness in this Dominion not less than your wide knowledge of our conditions and requirements have greatly endeared you to the minds and hearts of the Canadian people. My warmest personal regards.

Bon voyage! and be assured that a warm welcome will always await you on your return to Canada, which I hope will not be long deferred." In reply, Mr. MacDonald said A thousand thanks for your most cordial message. It gives us "both the greatest satisfaction and happiness." AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S GREETINGS. "Close Co-operation with British Government." (Press Association Foreign Special.) Qcebec, Friday. Mr.

Scullin, Prime Minister in the new Labour Government of Australia, sent the following message to Mr. Eamsay MacDonald to-day Having been entrusted with the office of Premier of Australia, and having yesterday completed the formation of my Government, 1 take this early opportunity of expressing the gratification which my colleagues and I feel at the prospect of close and cordial co-operation with you and your Government in promoting the aims which we have in common, and, in particular, the general good of the British Commonwealth of nations. We note with 6pecial pleasure the progress of jour efforts to advance the cause of world peace, and sincerely trust, that the expectations founded oh your recent visit to the United States will be speedily and completely realised." Mr. MacDonald replied Your message gives me the greatest satisfaction. I heartily reciprocate its spirit, and share its hopes regarding close and cordial co-operation with the present British Government.

I am happy to gav that the reception which my mission to the United States has had has been wonderfully cordial and promising. I hope you will give my personal good wishes to vour colleagues." V.C. COMPANION'S ON THE VOYAGE. (Reuters Telegram.) Quebec, Friday. When Mr Ramsay MacDonald and his party leave to-night for home, on board the Duchess of York, they will be accompanied by seven of Canada's V.C.s, who are going over to attend the Prince of Wales's forthcoming dinner PREMIER TO MR.

MACKENZIE KING Mr. MacDonald sent the following message to Mr. Mackenzie King, the Prime Minister of Canada: I wish to eend my warmest thanks to you for the splendid welcome every- wnere received and th admirable arrangements made throughout. I hizhlv appreciate the generous hospitality be- eiueu aua au aone tor our comlort. From first to last our stay has been made thoroughly interesting and enjoyable, and in addition I have had the great advantage of conferring with vou on many topics of mutual interest.

'My daughter j' "Jt iiua expression ot our gratitude and personal regard." THUNDERBOLT STRIKES STRETFORD HOUSES. Snow in Lake District Mountains in the Lake District and in Southern Ireland were snowclad yesterday, and in several parts of England -tail-storms occurred. A flash of lightning at Stretford was followed by a terrific thunderclap and a sharp hailstorm. A thunderbolt struck two houses in Hoss Road, knocking off chimney pots, burning wireless aerials away, and causing holes in the roof. Na one was in either house at the time.

Helveliyu and other Lakeland hills over 600 feet in height were covered with snow yesterday, while in contrast laburnum trees at Windermere were blooming as in springtime. Nature observers have seen red-throated divers in Lakeland already, and regard this as indicating a very cold winter. It was more than 20deg. colder yesterday than at the beginning of the week, Snow alto fell in Caemarvosshiia. Cotton and Wool Decisions (FROM OUB LABOUR The Cabinet Coal Committee again met the officials of the Miners' Federation yesterday morning on the Government's coal policy.

A meeting of the full Cabinet was held in the afternoon to consider the legislative programme for the session which opens on Tuesday, included in which is the important Mining Bill. According to Mr. Cook, the Miners' Federation is to receive the Government's legislative proposals about the mines in writing on Wednesday evening, when they will be considered by the Executive of the Federation. The Executive will meet again the following day and may seek an interview with the Government, or at any rate it will be in readiness to meet Ministers jf they desire. A full delegate conference of the Federation has been called for the following Tuesday, November 5.

Yesterday's discussions between Ministers and the miners dealt mainly with the owners' schemes for cooperative marketing, output control and price fixing, and the action which the Government proposes to take on them. The discussions turned largelv on the general principle of the scheme, and the relation to it of miners and consumers. It was undei stood that final control of the district schemes would rest with a national bodv on which minors and consumers would be represented. It was explained that not all the districts had sent in schemes, but those owners who stood out would be brought in under thp compulsory powers which thp hill would confer on the Board of Trade. Matters did not.

however, go far in tin1 discussions owing to the lack of detail. IT fk lino bi a-h ibSUE. On the hours question nothing new was added, and the miners still hold to their interpretation of the Govern-! ment's intentions a reduction by half an hour next spring. The Government appears to have been sympathetic on the question of no reduction of wages, but recorded the owners persistent opposition to a national agreement. There is a tendency to minimise the importance of the wages issue, because it will be open for the districts whose agreements are terminable at the end of the year to continue them until the hours change takes place.

But that does not remove the miners' fears that a reduction may lie ahead unless the Government can give a definite assurance that it will prevent it or can assure the miners that Mr. Snowden's phrase "There should be no reduction of wages is to be taken as a pledge. For some reason the miners' officials appear to nave resented tne vasue i i eicrcuces 10 the Government's uro-1 posals which Mr. Snowden and Mr. Graham have made in nuKlic The miners' noint sppms tn lv that the Government should have given them defn te proposals first.

But the uovernment promise to consult them public refc by Masters' to what could hardly be said to rule out anv after all, is one of the most critical i parts oi tneir programme. tne ex-! planation probablv is that Mr. Herbert Smith found Mr. Snowden's frank I declaration against a return to the seven-hour day exceedingly unnalat- ante. In announcing the Federation's meetings Mr.

Cook said the delegate conference would be called to consider the proposals and decide how the membership of the Federation is to be This leaves open the possibility of the conference shifting its responsibility by throwing the Government's proposals back to the districts or to a ballot vote. As the history of the Miners' Federation abundantly proves, this is a hazardous democratic experiment whose results are often far from being in the hest interests of the Federation. The voice of the miners is not (as the ballot votes of lsro showed) always the voice of wisdom WOOLLEN CRISIS. To-day is an important day in the wases dispute in the woollen and Tk. -v-t-; i worsted industry.

The ational Asso- eiation of Lnions in the Textile Trade meets at Bradford to consider the STATUE TARRED AND FEATHERED. Outrage in Full View of The Statue of Industries at the North-east Coast Exhibition at New- castle was tarred and feathered last night by several hundred students of Armstrong College, Durham University, in full view of the crowds. A force of eighty police was. summoned to the scene and dispersed the students. The fire brigade turned a hose on two photographers who attempted to "snap the outrage.

The statue, consisting of a female figure with cherubs at the feet has been the subject of adverse criticism. It was designed by a teacher at the College. FOREIGN TELEGRAMS OX PAGE 17: French Policy. The Young Plan Plebiscite. Trial of Spanish Ex-Premier.

1 petition had aroused during the eight days of the hearing culminated in astonishing scenes of enthusiasm. A crowd ff some thousands gathered in the streets on each side of the Guildhall. A few minutes after Mr. Justice Swift in the first sentence of his judgment pronounced that the petition had failed the news was abroad, and now and again the quiet tones of the judge were drowned by the roars of cheering from outside. Inside the court, when the iudces had withdrawn, Mr.

Moses shook hands with his agent and then dashed across the court and embraced and kissed his wife. Then he sought the two electors who launched the petition against him and shook hands with them, remark ing No bitterness, is there Council on both sraes shared in the congratula tions. Mr. Roland Oliver, the lead ing counsel for the petitioners, passed Mr. Moses a note complimenting him on the result and expressing his best wishes for his future.

Before he left JNlr. Jdoses sent the following telegram iu me jrrime -Minister secretary Please report to the Prime Minister that we have won the Plymouth petition. Jioses retains the seat. Outside the Guildhall. Outside the crowds were kept clear cf the Guildhall by a powerful body of police.

When Mr. Moses appeared he was greeted by round after round of frantic cheering. He stood looking pale, but with his face wreathed in smiles, waving his hat in acknowledgment. Then in response to the clamour he made a brief speech. Finally he drove away through the surging throng in an open car, with policemen standing on the running-board.

As the car passed slowly through the narrow lane between the cheering crowds Mr. Moses stood upright shouting his thanks. To a reporter Mr. Moses said: Having come through ona of the most trying ordeals which can fall to the lot of any man in public life, I do not retain any thought of bitterness against anyone concerned with launching the petition. My heart is full of gratitude for the loyalty, devotion, and wholehearted service of all my friends.

Prom the beginning 1 have been confident that British justice would vindicate my position, and my faith in English law has not been misrjlaced. I have been treated by my opponents with the utmost fairness. Sow I only desire to go forward on the pathway of service to my fellow-citizens, to whom I have devoted the whole of my life. With Tegard to Mr. Ballard, no matter how one may criticise his methods, he is free from any further responsibility this matter.

During the evening Mr. Moses received hundreds of teleprams and letters of congratulation. Throngs of people and sympathisers paraded outside his house to cheer him, but Mr. Moses did not hear them. He had left in a motor-car, accompanied by his wife, for St.

Austell, in order to obtain what he said he most needed after the strain of the week solitude and quietness." Mr. Alfred Casanova Ballard, the wealthy philanthropist and founder of the boys' clubs in Plymouth, upon whose intervention in the election the petition has largely centred, said: It ha3 gone the onlv trav it -Muld. I knew it would end like this. I am not sroine Tthluli J. lousness of it, and the fact that in this petition I was the one who was aimed at.

20,000 It is understood that the costs of the petition will run into more than 20,000. Nominally the petitioners are liable, but they will be indemnified. One of the petitioners, Mr. Revington, said I have nothing to compljin of in the result. A judge's decision ii r.ot like that of a jury.

I never felt any animus towards Mr. Moses. He was not the Derson we were getting It was Mr. Ballard. So.

I am not paying the costs. They mil come out of party funds. Applications for relief for technical breaches of the law weie gi anted to Mr. Moses, his election scent. Mr.

A. 'V. Miller, Mr. Linsdell, who paid for a car, and Mr. reeman a taxi: to take voters to the poll.

In the case of Mr. Ballard a certificate of indemnity was Kranted by the Court. This means that, he is freed from the possibility of prosecution, though he is still liable to be reported to the House of Commons. The specific allegations of bribery and corruption made by the petitioners were: 1) That there was cenera! triberv. 2i That Mr.

Baliard told boys" at the Ballard Institute to ask their parents to vote for Mr. Moses, and promised to increase their py and give them a firework display if Mr. Moses won. (3) That Mr. Ballard inserted without authority in local papers an advertisement urging voters to snpport Mr.

Jioses. t-i) That Mr. Lindsell, a locs.l hairdresser, hired and paid for a car to take electors to the poll. i5i That Mr. Freeman, taxi owner-driver, used his haciney carriage to take electors to the noil.

fS That Mr. Miller, the election agent, failed to make a proper return of election expenses. Leading counsel in the case were For the petitioners, Mr. Roland Oliver and Mr. Hilberv, K.C., and for Mr.

Moses, the Hon Stafford Cripps, K.C., and Mr. F. W. Beney. The judgment Is reported on page 19.

PREVIOUS PETITIONS. The last case of a member being unseated was at Oxford in. 1924, when Mr. Frank Gray, the Liberal, had this unfortunate experience, but there were no charges of bribery, treating, or personation. Similarly, when Mr.

Hilton Philipson, the National uneral, was unseated in Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1923 there were no allegations of- personal misconduct on the part of Mr. Philipson. Those were the last two case, ana Mr. Justice Swift was judge in. the Oxford one.

for the agreement and 35 against. Thetao owner-anver, wno usea nis taxi opposition at the conference of the Railway Clerks' Association a week ago was also considerable, although the was overwhelming. Mr. Cramp, the secretary ot the U.K., commented Lfter the votes. t-We mv we shall now be in for a period oi stability." GLASGOW 'BUS SMASH.

Lancashire M.P. Hurt. Mr. H. M.

Gibson. M.P. for the Mossier Division of Lancaster, was among several persons injured last night when a private 'bus belonging to the Scottish Co-ooerative Wholesale Socierv in a collision and capsized in the ana severely shaken. He was fulfil a political engagement unable to in Paisley Three of the six persons involved in the mishap were removed to the infirmary, but their injuries were not of a serious nature. FIRST WOMAN MEMBER AT BACUP.

A surprising development yesterday in the Bacup municipal elections was the withdrawal of the candidature Of Mr. F. Whittle (Conservative), the retiring member for Greens Ward. His opponent, Mrs. J.

Parry (Liberal), a member of the Haslingden Board of Guardians, who was an eleventh-hour selection, thus receives an unopposed return, and becomes the first woman member oi the Baeup Council..