CLEAN BOWLED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3079, 9 May 1917, Page 7

CLEAN BOWLED

A' P.L:L: ELECTION. CANDIDATE'S MISREPRESENTATIONS. Here i§ a eainple of the misrepresentations which, characterised the tactics of the Labour caucus (P.L.L.) ..candidates during the recent election:— In reply to the cable message received by Sir John Quick from Si\ - r , William Robertson; Chief of the Imperial Staff, .wherein he stated that every man was necessary' to win the war, Jlr.' A. J. Bampson, the P.L.L. Opposition candidate for Bendigo, made a sworn declaration that, at a. banquet given by the High Commissioner, Mr. Andrew Fisher, to lie delegates from the oversea dominions, in the Hotel.Cecil last : year, he heard • Sir William Robertson publicly declare that "we had I enough men to win the wiix; .what we need is every man to-win peace." : . .. . . .-';/- • The "Sydney Morning. Herald" clean bowled llr.. Hampson by quoting from the report of the function presided over by Mr.'Andrew Fisher at the Hotel Cecil on August 29, 1916, as given in the London. "Times":—"General Sir William Uobertson, in proposing ; the 'Commonwealth of Australia,' said the part which •the Australian contingent had played in the war was second .to none of the oversea dominions. The Australians had done unprecedented work on the Western front and in Egypt. In a letter the Commander-in-Chief said the ■ great achievements at Poziores had never been surpassed. The Australians had never relinquished the ground they had won. They had'established a very fine record, which he was sure they would sustain. We wanted 9,11 the men we could pet, not only to win the war, which, with God's help-ire should, but to win a lasting peace, such as was demanded by the. great sacrifices we had made."