7 OCTOBER 1911, Page 17

The result of the General Elections in Sweden has been

greatly to strengthen the Liberals. In the Chamber they

now command 100 votes, the Conservatives, who lost 20 seats, and the Social Democrats, who won 10, each numbering 65. It is expected that the Conservatives will resign and the Liberals be called on to form a new Cabinet. Special interest attaches to the elections from the fact that, as the Times correspondent at Stockholm points out, the new system of proportional representation,' introduced by the Conservatives and reluc- tantly accepted by the Liberals, has worked out to the advan- tage of its opponents—a signal proof of the impartiality of the principle and its application.