GENERAL ELECTION IN BRITAIN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 20

GENERAL ELECTION IN BRITAIN.

LEADERS’ OPEN CAMPAIGN. (Unitad Press Association — By Elsotrls TsleeraDh—Copyright.) LONDON, February 27. Using tho latest electioneering broadcasting device, by which his speech was heard in nine halls in various towns in # Lancashire and Cheshire, with audiences totalling 35,000, Mr Baldwin addressed a meeting in tho Free Tracies Hall, Manchester. The Prime. Minister lengthily traversed the Labour Party’s politics, and declared that nationalisation and Socialism were the very negation of the spirit of individual enterprise, and would reduce the people to the level of marionettes, dancing to the dictation of officials—a dance of death, so far as national pi ogress was concerned. He added that, despite black spots, we were finding more work every year, and were regaining our lost markets slowly but surely. We were making good the losses caused by the war. The Liberal election campaign is being opened to-day. Mr Lloyd Georg© will address a great luncheon party at the Connaught Rooms, attended by peers and members of the House of Commons, candidates and their supporters. Nearly 500 candidates have already been adopted. Most of them will hear the leader announce the Liberal policy, which, it is said, “will'not only be dramatic but will also profoundly affect tho course of the general election.” •