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TRIANGULAR CONTEST. TWO WAR CORRESPONDENTS. UNIONIST CANDIDATE. BY TELEGItAHI —MESS ASSOCIATION—COrYRianI'. (Rcc. April 14, 11.5 p.m.) London, April 14. Mr. A. G. Hales, war. correspondent, proposes to contest Mr. Winston Churchill's seat, North-West Manchester, as a Labour, Tariff Reform, and Army Reform candidate, although Mr. \V. Joynson Hicks opposes Mr. Churchill on behalf of tho. Unionists. MR. HICKS AMD MR. HALES. If Mr. Hales adheres to his candidature, the North West Manchester election will become a triple affair instead of a direct issue between Liberal and Unionist. Tho last election was a duel botween Mr. Churchill and his present Unionist opponent Mr. W. Joynson Hicks, and Mr. . Churchill won by 1241 votes. Mr. Joynson Ilicks is a pronounced anti-Socialist, and lately took that side in- a public debato, with • Mr. V. Grayson, the wellknown member for Colnc Valley.' The "Manchester • Guardian," in editorially commenting on the debatej, expresses disappointment, and remarks: "Instead of coming to business at the points 'already reached by people who are trying seriously to work the thing out in their own minds, both debaters kept almost exclusively to the kind of flourishes ' which have to bo dropped before any fruitful dobate can begin." "A sample of Mr. Joynson Hicks's "flourishes" is: "Socialists talk of revolution, but I tell you we are upon the. vergo, of a revolution—(laughter and cheers)—of God-fearing men, men who.will not any longer stand tho kind of- Socialism that is preached day by day at . tho street corners of overy town in England. Wo have stood it long enough.—(Cheors.)" The "Manchester Guardian" further comments: "Mr. Joynson Hicks tried to identify Socialism with aggressive atheism, but as half our High' Church parsons , are Socialists that cock < will not fight." ' Mr. A; G. Hales, novelist, spocial correspondent, and • lecturer, was born in Australia in 1850, and lived for years in England. He was London "Daily News" correspondent in .South Africa, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Eensburg. Ho represented tho. same paper in Macedonia, and during tho Russo-Japanese war. He has lectured through England, America, South Africa, and -Australia, and has travelled over a great.part;of tho world, partly as special correspondent, and partly in search of . sport and. adventure. Ho followed mining for years, and has been on nearly, every known t mining field in tho world. Hi 3 publications—quite, a number— 1 are as diverse as his travels and his talents. They include "Driscoll, King of Scouts/f "Camp Fire Sketches," ."Maid Molly," songs' !and poems. . .