27 AUGUST 1921, Page 3

The Labour. Party retained the seat at Caerphilly, Glamorgan- shire,

in the by-election on Wednesday. The figures were :— Kr. Morgan Jones (Labour), 13,699 ; Mr. Rees Edmunds (Coalition Liberal), 8,958 ; Mr. R. Stewart (Communist), 2,592. The Labour majority of 4,741 was double that of 1918, when the late Mr. Onions was returned by 2,014 votes over the same Liberal opponent, but the poll this time was larger by 4,271. The failure of the Communist in a typical South Wales mining district, specially chosen as favourable for the venture, is noteworthy.