FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14283, 27 April 1917, Page 5

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

CONFUSION OF ISSUES. j WOMEN'S CHAIN LETTERS. (Elec. Tel, Copyrigrit— united Press, Assn.* (Received April 27, 10.15 a.m.) ' SYDNEY, April 27. Both sides are putting all their strength: into, the .Federal election campaign, the main issues of which are largely swamped by the bickerings of the now divided Laborites and the attempts of one side to reincarnate and the other to effectually lay the conscription ghost. The Political ;liabor League^, .advocates insist that once {he election is over the country . shall be ,free for another conscription ' referenchim.' The Liberals as loudly disclaim any such,^intention. Both sides, however, are iip against one solid trouble. < _ The Avromen's movement is m full swing, m the , shape of a chain letter binding the recipient to write or wire to: district candidates pledging themselves I m favor of 'aaiti-Shouting legislation, also j to call public* meetings and otherwise stir | up tilings .with the same object. Each I recipient is asked to pass it on to three \ other women,' - < The postmen 'are already ' feeling the weight of the^ Chain. MELBOURNE, April 27. At, an .eleqtioij^meeting an interrogator i asked whether m "the event' of a British victory would Germans, be., allowed, to, enter Australia",?:" Miv Hughes replied' that it .depended upon tlie party returned' at the «le ctions. If he ;,was returned, Germans TCO-ufd "certainly: not be ad- ; mitted. :? " :: ' • •'" _'''". . .\;