FEDERAL ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2249, 8 September 1914, Page 7

FEDERAL ELECTIONS

THE LATEST INDICATIONS. fly Toleirrapli—Press Association—Oopyriehl Sydney, September 7. The latest-indications are that Labour will secure 41 seats, tho Liberals 30, and four are doubtful. Interest attaches i to tho return of two Gerniaus, Mr. Dankel, Labour'candidate for Boothby, South Australia, and Mr. Stumm, a Liberal. • Mr. Lilley is having a hard fight. , The' Melbourne "Age" suggests that now that the Cook Government is defeated, it is tho duty of the ■ Labour Party, while the war continues, to stand for non-partisan national administration. A REGRETTABLE CHANGE. Sydrwy, September '7. Tha "Daily Telegraph," in a leader on tho Federal elections, says: "It is evident that the result of the elections will be a change of Government at a time when continuity is of vital importance. It is to the last degree regrettable that there should bo a chango of Administration in the middle of tho greatest' crisis in history. It wijlnot only embarrass the defence operations, but the event will be seized ; upon by the Empire's enemies as a basis for further lies about tho loyalty of the Dominions. Tho Gorman people, will probably bo told that the Australian Government has been unseated for promising troops to assist the Mother Country, and thus bo buoyed up by tho hope that England's oversea possessions are disloyal." .