BRITISH POLITICS

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16397, 17 December 1918, Page 6

BRITISH POLITICS

THE GENERAL ELECTION

LABOUR LEADERS REPLY TO THE

PREMIER

IBy Cabio. —Press Association.—Copyright> lAusiraUar. and . Cab o Association.) LONDON. December 14.

Mr «T. R. Clynos and Mr A. Honde> son spiritedly replied to the Premier's attack on the Labour Party. Air o'ynes said that tiio Premier had failed to maintain the dignity of his high office. It whs pecan so tiioro was no°strong Labour Party in Russia that Russia had been driven to extreme measures. ' Mr Henderson said that the Labour Party was the same to-day as that which helped the Premier to form a Government in 191 G. PROCEEDINGS ORDERLY. "WOMEN ENTHUSIASTIC. LONDON. December 10. There was a complete absence of disorder at the elections, exeeut a scuffle between Sum Feiners and Nationalist at Tinperary. An astonishing feature everywhere' was the eagerness of women to vt)te. The proportion of women to men iu on# London division was 100 to one, and the proportion at Hammersmith was fifty to one. "LIVE" MEN RTTT.L NEEDED IX THE GOVERNMENT. NATIONAL TRAINING. (Australian and X.Z. Cab'o Assoeiatioa.) LONDON December 10. Coalition newspapers are of opinion that Mr Lloyd George will continuo to includo in tho Government, men of business and imsh and go, the need for which is as insistent as over. The newspapers point out that while, as far as England is concerned, conscription in the Continental sense is dead, some form of national training will possibly bo essential ns a factor of national security, with safeguards against militarism.