BRITISH POLITICS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 October 1922, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

jlj :., TWO AL.TEENATIVES. AWAITING UNIONIST MEETING. <BY CABLE—FEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYEIGHT LONDON, Oct. 17. The Daily Mail states that the Preanier, addressing Coalition-Liberal mem"bers of. the Government, gave important information about future political -developments. He stated that the issue sstill depends entirely on the result of -the Unionists' meeting on Thursday, Imt it is now narrowed down to two alternatives. If the meeting supports Mr Austen -Chamberlain's plea for a continuance of the Coalition there will be an immediate dissolution, but if it rejects the advice Mr Chamberlain, with other pro--Coalition Conservative leaders, will resign from the Conservative Party The Premier and the Government wili •then resign and it will be open to the Independent Conservatives to form a new Government if they wish The inevitable result in either case ./■as an immediate election, since no •^Conservative -Ministers could carry on an the/face of the opposiiton created by Refections. The Premier added that ie was convinced he could command a large ma ority of the elections™ hi 5?. 2V° a,PPeal t0 the electors for -the -continued co-operation of the Conservatives and the Liberals on the that stability was still needed an_the conduct of the Government. ■•■^mS d Q^ ng, <<-oSpeakinS at Hammersmith, said: ''Personally, I fi rm i v be - |uise_from myself that there is a deepseated feeling among workers and the party that there ought to -*c a Conservative Prime Minister. ■ c? nZ IGtlolx aTises from no feeling against JVIr Lloyd George. It does not andefile°S £ oVe ' from the '«* ™L? of the party. We must not «£* $P the Conservative Party in a Mr Arthur Henderson, speaking at OnS- rt, °l the • election > said the +n + n S + ? Sr? pta,on was inevitable llhr S v? f%* nrdZ v of the national debt. Thei Labour Party would create a war debt redemption fund by a lew on accumulated wealth, beginning at fortunes of Jsooo^. ' . 8 +^% Cccl ] HFmsworth (Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs) has notified }Z C,HP UenT .hat he is not standing at the next election. T f m«• L°NDON, Oct. 18. Lt.-Col Sir E. A. Sanders (Under™fw7 J" Wa^' who is a CoSioi .Unionist, has resigned. He was officially requested to defer his resignation pending the Unionist meeting oSurs