MIRACLE NEEDED TO SAVE MCDONALD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 268, 12 November 1935, Page 7

MIRACLE NEEDED TO SAVE MCDONALD.

BATTLE AT SEAHAM.

10,000 Majority Expected Against ex-Premier. ELECTION SPECULATIONS. United Press Association. —Copyright (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 11. The "Manchester Guardian" special correspondent accompanying Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald in his Seaham campaign says that it will be a miracle if Mr. MacDouald holds the seat. Some tipsters give Mr. E. Shinwell, Minister of Mines in the last Labour Cabinet, a majority of 10,000, but more cautious Labour estimates are 3000. A meeting being held by a Conservative candidate, Dr. W. J. O'Donovan, at Mile- End, was broken up, allegedly by 150 Communists, yelling slogans. Eventually they rushed the platform, used chairs as missiles, and kicked and scratched supporters protecting Dr. O'Donovan. They attempted to tear a fur coat from a woman, and attacked stewards who were carrying out Mrs. O'Donovan, who had fainted. The "Daily Telegraph" expresses the opinion that Labour supporters will receive a shock in the electorates around London. They are boasting that they will recover 1!) seats lost at the 1931 election, but the Conservatives believe Labour is over-sanguine. Labour Leader's Seat in Doubt. The former hope to hold several of the seats, including Mile End, owing to tho popularity of Dr. O'Donovan due to his excellent work in the hospitals. The Conservatives believe Major C. R. Attlee, Leader of the Labour party, is in danger of losing his seat. Sir Austen Chamberlain is fighting his eighteenth election. Mr. Isaac Foot, who s contesting Bodmin, has three sons among .the candidates, while Mr. Lloyd ucorge has a son and a daughter, and Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Mr. Winston Churchill, Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, Sir Stafford Cripps and Lady Astor each has a son among the candidates. In his final election broadcast, Mr. Stanley Baldwin referred to the question of international disarmament, to promote which, he said, no country had done more than had Britain, but in this matter agreement must be secured among a number of countries, among which were to be found every variety of conditions in their history, in their surroundings and ways of life, in their strength and in their weakness. That explained why progress had been much slower than people in this country would have wished. "I pledge myself to you," he concluded, "that if you give me confidence now I will give you all that is in me to givo you during the few years that can only remain to me at my present age, and I pledge that service to you and to my country."