BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 15049, 30 November 1923, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN,

SOME HARD HITTING. •i-esa Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyrit. LONDON, Thursday. Mr. Lloyd George, during the day, covered a great part of Lancashire. Comencing at Leeds, he spoke at every stopping-place, where his supporters clambered on empty railway trucks to see and hear him. Ho left the train at Accrington, and addressed a crowd of ten thousand, and later addressed five thousand at Preston. Other meetings were held at Biackburn, Burnley and Oldham, to which he motored in a blinding snowstorm, and made his ninth set speech. In his address at Preston he gave an amusing description of Lord Derby as an erring son of Lancashire, who every night gave an exhibition of looping the loop. One day he was upright for the principles of free trade, and the next he had his head down to his heels for protection. He would have fallen out long ago if he had not ibeen strapped in. “Lord Derby,” he added, “flounders about like a harpooned walrus. He said last night that French statesmen prefer to deal with Mr Baldwin rather than himself. I am sure they do.” (Laughter.)—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. A SENSELESS HANDICAP. LONDON, Thursday. Lord Birkenhead, who is following Mr. Lloyd George, when speaking at Leeds, described Mr Lloyd George’s recent travels as a reconciliation honeymoon, and added: “Lifa would be intolerable without its reconciliations.” (Laughter.)

After doing more than any other notion tp win the war, Britain was incomparably in a worse position than any of the other conquering nations, said Lord Birkenhead. No protected nation had such chronic unemployment. When he read Mr. Lloyd George’s speeches, he failed to find a single minute given to the consideration of this all-important problem. It was difficult to believe the country’s troubles could be solved by brilliant sarcasms and vivid raillery. Free trade was a mad, senseless handicap, which the Government, with the help of the electors, meant to end. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

PROMISE OF EMPLOYMENT. LONDON, Thursday. The tariff reformers purpose countering the effect of Messrs. Morleys’ circular by issuing details of 22 manufacturing firms in London, Birmingham, and elsewhere who offer to employ 36,043 additional hands if Mr. Baldwin’s proposals to protect the home market become operative. The British. Electrical Association alone premises to employ 15,000 additional hands. The Yorkshire Post says there is accumulating evidence in anticipation of a Conservative triumph. Inquiries are being made regarding factories and factory sites in Britain, where goods now imported will be made. A number of American and European firms have commenced- negotiations for the purchase or rental of factories. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

ANSWER TO MOBLEYS ’ CIRCULAR (Received Friday, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON Thursday. Answering I. and R. Morleys’ circular the Conservative headquarters points out that tea and sugar merchants might advise customers not to buy large stocks until the promised reduction in duties thereon becomes effective. Mr. Ashmoad Bartlett is standing for North Hammersmith as a Conservative. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.