BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 70, 17 December 1918, Page 5

BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION

MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S ATTACK ON 1 LABOUR A SPIRITED REPLY London, December 15. Mr. J. R. Clynes and Mr. Arthur Henderson have spiritedly replied to the Premier's attack oil llio Labour Party. Mir. Clynes says the Premier has failed to maintain tho dignity of his • high office. It was because there was no strong Labour Party in Russia that, Russia had been driven to extreme measures. Air. Henderson says the Labour Party is the same to-da.v as thai: which helped the Premier to form a Government in 19J6.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

"PUSH" AND "CO" IN THE CABINET MR. LLOYJ) GEORGE WANTS BUSINESS INTELLECT. London, December 15. Coalition newspapers are of the opinion that Mr. Lloyd George will continue lo include iirthe Government men of business with "push" and "go," the need for which is as insistent as ever. They also point out that while, so far as England is concerned, conscription in the Continental sense is dead, .some form of national training will possibly be an essential fnct&r in national security, with safeguards against militarism. Cable Assn.

FEATURES OF THE POLLING. London,' December 1 15. There is a complete a'bsenco of disorder from the polling, except a scuffle between Sinn Felners anil. Nationalists at Tippea'ary. An astonishing feature everywhere is the eagerness of women to vote. The proportion of women to. men in one London division was 100 to' one, and the proportion in Hammersmith was 50 to one.—Aus.-N.Z. CableaAssn.-Reuter.