A GREAT DAY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 October 1924, Page 7

A GREAT DAY

IN BRITISH HISTORY, ELECTION NEXT WEEK: WILL LABOUR WIN? BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. j Received Oct. 22, 11.45'a.m. LONDON, Oct. 21. . The analysis of nominations indicates that fewer Australians and New ( Zealanders are standing than last i year. Those nominated include:— Conservatives'—Guy Gaunts (Buck- ( rose), Captain- Griffyths-Fairfax (Nor- € wich), Alan Burgoyne (Aylesbury), Sir Lucas Tooth (Isle of Ely), Newton Moore (Richmond)', Sir Gerald Strickland (Lancaster) Grigg (Oldham), F. t M. B. Fisher (Newcastle Central). Liberals.—Harney (South Shield:;); Chappie (Dumfries/, Harris (Bethnal " Green), Gilbert Murray (Oxford), Mol- , den. (West Islington). Labourites—Scurr (Mile End), Muriel \ Matters Porter (Hastings). , Last year’s candidates not .• tanning j include Pilkington Norton Griffiths. • The Conservatives’ battlecry for the 1 final week of the campaign is: "Work 1 for a clear majority and relief 'from ( elections.” A scrutiny of the nominations show that forty-one women are standing, including the Labourite Mrs Bertrand Russell. CHURCHILL THE ELUSIVE. ■ j MALIGNS BRITAIN’S PREMIER. Received Oct. 22, 11)30 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 21. J Mr. Winston Churchill at a meeting - at Epping said: “You would not think ; Mr. MacDonald wias still Premier in < view of the language he uses. , No Prime. Minister ever collapsed so pitifully in-the hour of conflict as Britain’s first-. Socialist Prime Minister. Mr. MacDonald described his opponents as mangy curs, sniffing round a dungheap in wonder what a dunglieap is! Mr. MacDonald has descended to the level where no Prime Minister 1 ever demeaned himself before.’’ GENTLE WORDS! i FRGM BOLSHEVIK LEADER,. ! - ~ 1 Received Oct. 22, 11.50 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 21. 1 Trotsky predicts a Conservative victory because he claims Mr. MacDonald is too cowardly to initiate a “full-blooded working . class revolution.” In the event of Mr. MacDonald’s defeat Earl Curzon will probably prevent the Russian loan materialising. He added: “We will endeavour to exist without it.” . . LONDON, Oct. 21. It .is practically only a week until . polling day; yet there is evidence in all quarters that large masses of the electors remain uncertain how to vote. - The Conservatives 'and Labourites are , equally > confident of increasing their < _ representation at Westminster. If ! they should do so it would obviously -i be at the expense of the Liberals. Yet . it is by no means certain that the Liberal vote will be wiped out to that i extent. On the other hand some of < the shrewdest critics ape of the opiii- j ion that many electors, : wherever pos- ; sible, will vote for the Liberal can- j didate as representing the middle : party, < enough, the Morning Post, i which,is an out and out Conservative, has. foreseen all along the danger of 1 the Conservative -point of view of dnv- ' ing the Liberals into the Labour camp, and records this morning a 1 statement from Liberal headquarters, 1 given prominence in last night’s Star, that “the withdrawal of the Liberal candidate means only that the Liberal elector must vote according to his own judgment and conscience, not necessarily for the old coalition.” Obviously, therefore, the Liberal vote must ,remain an important and possibly the decisive factor in the election. The Daily Express, in an editorial, accuses, the Daily! News of trying to wreck the Liberal-Conservative pact in the constituencies. The Express Says: “The pact wa6 arrived at by the re- \ sponsible Liberal leaders and has the support of practically the entire Liberal press. The object of breaking the pact is to increase the Socialist representation in the next House of Commons. The D:aily News has been notoriously playing up to the Socialists for months past,” Mr. Stanley Baldwin (Leader of the Conservatives), released from his activities in' his own constituency, where he is unopposed, continues his campaign throughout the country. He spoke last night at Southend, where, referring to the rejection pf the Imperial preference proposals, he said when the day came that a British Dominion entered into a commercial treaty with the United States. Britain might as well prepare to go out of business. Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Conservative) >at Birmingham said: “It is in cultivating trade with the Dominions . that we shall find a better remedy for unemployment than in kowcowing to the bloody and ruthless tyranny which devastated Russia and destroyed her credit.” The Campbell case continues to figure largely in the speeches. Sir W. M. Joynson-Hicks (Conservative), at Jslewovth, said: “The ‘suggestion is that the Government was got at by men who could tell the truth. They are Messrs. G. Lansbury, J. Maxt-on and J. Scurr. I accuse these ‘ men openly that they did not go to the Prime Minister or the AttornevGeneral to talk about the weather.” Mr. Arthur Henderson (Home Secretary), at Preston, said: “I ask Sir Alfred Moml to be honourable and produce evidence that I took a. deputation to the Prime Minister, and secondly, that I allowed Mr. Lansbury to come and see me on this subject. 1 ask for proof or a withdrawal of both statements.” Meantime Sir A. Moral/ at Aberavon, repeated: “It is a fact that Mr. Lansbury went to see Mr. HendersonT What happened at that interview?” Mr. J. H. Thomas (Colonial Secretary), speaking at Porthenwl, declared that the 'Attorney-General (Sir Patrick Hastings) tokl Cabinet that Mr. Maxton said he knew Campbell and was- sure the Attorney-General -had mhde a mistake. The AttorneyGeneral, after an examination of the papers concerning Campbell’s war record,* came to the conclusion that it was ridiculous to put- a man like that into the dock, as a jury was sure to take a sympathetic view. Mi*. Thomas proceeded to argue that Mr. Llovd George’s Cabinet in fonr instances discussed the question of prosecutions. Labour headquarters state that reports from the country indicate that

the party is likelv to make substantial gains and th!at the Labour Party in the next Parliament -will be much stronger than at present. Mr. Philip Snowden (Chancellor of the Ex. "hequerl. speaking at Crecnfields, Colne Valley, said he was confident the Labourites would be returned very considerably increased in number.