"LIKE A BETRAYAL”

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11960, 15 October 1924, Page 7

"LIKE A BETRAYAL”

SCRAPPING OF SINGAPORE CONSERVATIVES HELPED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 14, 5.5,p.m.) LONDON, October 13. News from the constituencies shows that there will be local co-operation between Liberals and Conservatives on a considerable scale. The Conservatives are helped and no longer hampered by the dear food, which alienated a big women’s vote in 1923. The Conservatives are also helped by the vigorous support of popular newspapers. Thus the “Daily Express,” which at the last election gave the Conservatives lukewarm support, is now strongly opposing Labour on the ground that the cause of Imperial unity has moved backwards. The Singapore decision, it says, was not unlike a betrayal of Australia and New Zealand, and the impression was deepened by allowing the Japanese to insert the clause in the Geneva Protocol compelling Aus-tralia'-and New Zealand to arbitrate on the subject of coloured immigration, on pain, possibly, of having the British Fleet used against them.

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