BRITISH ELECTIONS

Northern Advocate, 13 October 1928, Page 8

BRITISH ELECTIONS

THE LIBER ALS * OPPORTUNITY.

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S PRE DICTION.

(Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 1.30 p.m. LONDON, October 12.

“The Liberals have little choice betAveen strangling prosperity with the tariff rope and drawing and quartering it with Socialism. Therefore they would fight the general election as an independent party and act in the next Parliament as an independent party," declared Mr Lloyd George at the Liberal Conference at Yarmouth, amid enthusiastic cheering. “W 9 shs.ll resist any attempt to overthrow ihe great fiscal system upon which our trade has been built up, and resist any attempt to establish Socialism '' he added. The Tories end Labourites were conspiring to destroy Libexalism by putting up candidates with no chance of winning, but with a view of spoiling Liberal chances in straight-out fljghts. He predicted that the electorate would overwhelmingly condemn the Government, giving the Liberals an enormous accession of strength. Whatever party had a majority < it would not be Labour,

LABOUR’S REPLY.

MR LLOYD GEORGE PILLORIED.

(Australian Press Association;) (Received 2 p.m.) • LONDON, October 12,

The “Daily Herald, ” in an editorial, states: “Our reply to Mr Lloyd George is that Mr Lloyd George’s hopes of holding the balance of power will fall to the ground and the Lib ; oral Party will be in ruins. Nobody knows that better than Mr Lloyd George, one of the chief authors of its ruin. It may linger for a long while on the political stage, but the days of its greatness are gone never to return, The Liberals, to achieve power, must win 280 seats. The odds are that they will lose 280 deposits at the general election. Labour is the only party, entering the tight confident of victory.