BRITISH ELECTIONS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 22, 7 November 1935, Page 10

BRITISH ELECTIONS

CROWDED MEETINGS HELD,

COMPLAINTS OF APATHY MADE.

(United Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 5.

Government party organisers ttmtinue to complain of apathy, but election meetings throughout the country are. crowded. Lord Stonehaven, on behalf or the Conservatives, urgently appeals for funds, emphasising that the expenses are heavier than in 1931 because there are many contests where Government candidates were then unopposed. Labour speakers throughout the country are concentrating increasingly oh the Government’s domestic policy. They stress the prospects of higher prices for food, and allege that railway, road and other schemes now being announced are electioneering dodges.

GOVERNMENT’S DEFENCE POLICY

WOULD BE CRIMINAL

-r. - -LONDON, November o. “We are‘-offering five years’ contributions toward rebuilding Britain, said Mr J. llariisay MacDonald, broadcasting. He promised to seek closer helpfulness with the Dominions and colonies and widen markets. The Government’s defence policy would bo found in the Eighth Article of the League Covenant. The increase offered a temptation for scaremongering, but the prime object of the National Government would remain to ensure that the bad old days of hostile alliances, warship-building rivalry, and armed camps would disappear for ever. The nation could not afford the return of party warfare amid the uncertainties and risks surrounding it. It would be criminal, in these times, when aggressors killed before they declared war, to leave women, children and aged people defenceless.

THE COUNCIL OF ACTION.

LIBERAL SUPPORT CLAIMED. LONDON, November 5. Mr D. Lloyd George, speaking at Pwllheli, claimed that the Empire Liberal Party approved the policy of his Council of Action.

BRITAIN’S FAILURE TO LEAD.

LABOUR BLAMES BIPERIALISTS

s / LONDON, November 5,

'ln a speech at Birmingham, the leader of the Labour Party (Major C. R. Attlee) said that the Government had failed to give a lead for peace and disarmament because the old Imperialists were still the strongest force.