GENERAL ELECTION AT HOME.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18200, 26 February 1929, Page 9

GENERAL ELECTION AT HOME.

Elaborate Arrangements Ii Hand. SOME NOVEL FEATUREb. (United Press Association—By Alsstrlt Telegraph—Copy richt.) (Received February 25, 5.5 p,m,) LONDON, February 24. Elaborate arrangements are already in hand for the general election which will be unlike any ever fought in | England. Oratory and propaganda wdl be ! mass-produced by mechanised wireloss, loud speakers, and films; and I “talkie” films will be used in an | effort to reach the whole Kingdom. The chief National agent of each : party is organising those now aids, and most electors, regardless of their I habitation, will hear speeches from the j Prime Minister (Mr Baldwin), Mr i Ramsay Macdonald (Leader of the Labour Party), and Mr Lloyd George Liberal Leader), hundreds of tube* distant from where the speech is I delivered. The three leaders will uroadcast j speeches at the outset of the campaign and again on the eve of the poiJ. In addition, wherever a member cf Cabinet or a Party leader speaks, the speeches will be relayed on tclepti >r.e wires and loud speakers to a senes cf other meetings. It is hoped thereby to address as many as twenty meetings rimultiueI ously. | Scores of talking films will be used ; throughout the United Kingdom, i The total number of elector* J expected to vote is 28,000,000 as compared with 22,000,000 in 1924.

ELECTION FORECABTB. THE COMING STRUGGLE. .waited Press Association—By ElastrU Taissraph —Copy r:<at.) LONDON, February 24. Mr J. L. Garvin, in the “Observer,” announces that, in view of the coming general election, he intends to examine th© public situation in a series of detached, good-humoured articles. He sums up thus: “First, the Government aud their party seem to Have resolved themselves unanimously into the noble order of ostriches. Whether the Ministers between now and the election., can induce a bored nation to j love them more is a matter to be examined later. It is plain at present, ; whether or not Mr Baldwin and his colleagues snatch a bare working majority out of the three-cornered gamble, that the Parliamentary strength of Conservatism proper is ! quite certain to be vastly diminished. I “Secondly, the Socialists will be far 1 stronger in the next House of Commons than ever before.

Thirdly, the Liberals will be disappointed at their own numbers. They will have to realise acutely that, though there may be three parties, there are only two lobbies.

“Fourthly, the Ministers will find it useless to dwell on the past, whether in reciting their own achievements or relating the delinquencies of their opponents. Wl-at does the Government propose for the next four years? Upon the answer all may turn. Britain is concerned about the future and nothing else. When Mr Churchill and his colleagues talk about the ancient history of the general strike they waste their breaths. Heaven help them on that dead tack. They might as well read the Riot Act to a deserted village.”

SCOTTISH HOME RULE. MINISTER'S UNHAPPY REMARK. (United Association —By ElMtrtf Teleeraph—Coo*nsrht.' LONDON. February 24. Contrasting with the Duke of Montrose’s remark at Edinburgh, that the Sects have the right to manage their own domestic affairs, is Sir H illiani Joynson-Hicks s statement at Oxford that people must realise that the old days of every man’s right to do as he likes with his own won’t werk in the twentieth century. The “Star” declares that the Conservative Commoners resent this, and assert that it will mean thousands of votes lost to the Conservatives, because Sir William Joynscn-Hieks is championing bureaucratic control, hitherto advocated only by Socialists. Jt is feared that numerous Government supporters will transfer allegianc® to the Liberals. Tho speech also entails more Cabinet trouble.