During the week the .Government have lost no less than
three by-elections, at all of which Ministers were defeated. We deal in our leading columns with the political significance of these untoward events. Here we merely record that at Mitcham Sir Arthur Griffith- Boscawen, Minister of Health, was defeated by the Labour candidate, Mr. Chuter Ede, by 833 votes, chiefly owing to the intervention of a Liberal and an Independent Conservative candidate. At East Willesden Colonel G. F. Stanley, the Under-Secretary to the Home Office, was defeated by Mr. Harcourt Johnstone, Liberal, by 6,176 votes. At Edge Hill, Liverpool, Major J. Hills, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, was defeated by Mr. J. H. Hayes, Labour, by 1,050 votes. Mr. Bonar Law is quickly closing up his depleted ranks. Mr. Neville Chamberlain becomes the new Minister of Health, while Sir William Joynson-Hicks leaves the Department of Overseas Trade to succeed him as Postmaster and Paymaster-GeneraL
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