ELECTIONS IN BRITAIN.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17613, 16 November 1922, Page 7

ELECTIONS IN BRITAIN.

INCIDENTS OF TOE CAMPAIGN. the Charms or great singers. (By Cable—Pr#s§ Association—Copyri^it.) (United S«rvioco (Received November 15th, 10.25 p.m.) LONDON, November 14. Freak election feats are scattered very sparsely through the final efforts to raise the oampaign from the somewhat stodgy plane which has marked it. Mr C. B. Fry's capture of Madame Clara Butt to sing at his Brighton meeting was the brightest idea. Her duet with Mr Kenneriey Rumford, «'The Keys of Heaven," struck the majot note of the whole election campaign in which all parties by Press, pamphlet, and platform are beseeching that unknown quantity—"Madame, will you walk and talk with meP" A section of the Labour Party have discovered the merits of howling down their opponents. The break-up of Mr Churchill's meeting at Dundee was repeated in several London constituencies. The Duke of Northumberland, while addressing, a meeting of dockers at Southampton, was Beverely heckled and a disturbance resulted. When it was at its height Madame .Melba arrived from a concert and realising the situation she sat at the piano and sang "Home Sweet Home. 1 ' The audienoe were silenoed and profoundly affected. The general outlook has changod but little. There is increasing confidence among the Conservative tipsters except in Scotland where, despite the combination of the Liberals against Labour, a note of nervousness has crept in t.t the eleventh hour. Another feature has been the gradual diminuendo of the war cries with which Mr Lloyd George's party commenced the campaign.

INDEPENDENT LIBERAL TACTICS. MB LLOYD GEORGE ANGRY. (Australian N.Z. Cubic Association.) LONDON, November 14. Mr Lloyd George, in an angry speech at Colwyn Bay, Wales, denouncing the Independent Liberals who were attacking his friends, declared:—"This is not cricket. It is going on throughout the country in plaoes where there are not the slightest chanoes of success, but just to prevent friends of mine from getting in. It is not Liberalism, but a poor, miserable vepdetta. Of my supporters, thirty-five have thus, been attacked, and it may put in fifteen to twenty Conservatives in these plaoes, and perhaps convert a small reactionary majority into an uncontrollable majority. The next Parliament is going to be one of the most decisive in the history of the countiy. All we can hope to achieve is to hold reaction in check until the progressive foroes are reorganised." m CHURCHILL AT DUNDEE. MEETING BROKEN UP. LONDON, November 14. There were lively Scenes at the first open meeting of Mr Winston Churchill's constituents in Dundee. A dense Crowd rushed the dOjOrs, forcing the police to draw their batons. Mr Churchill was received with a storm of cheers, mingled with hissing and booing by Socialists, whilst the singing of "Tell me the Old, Old story" aroused uproarious laughter. Mr Churchill attempted- to address the meeting while seated, but he was frequently interrupted. He protested that 1 hundreds of reptiles were spoiling the meeting, but; failing to stop the-inter-ruptions, he said he would not submit to the bullying ; tyranny of featherheads or be ruled by a mob of Socialists who would reduce this great country to a bear garden.

The meeting then broke up in disorder. A CANDIDATE'S ALLEGATIONS. LONDON, November 14. A political sepsation has been caused at Dover; wtyere -Mr Poison, an Independent Conservative, is opposing Lady Astor, the official Conservative candidate. Mr Poison alleges that Sir Reginald Hall and Sir John Malcolm Fraser offered to reimburse his expenses if he would retire from the contest.