BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1924, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

[REUTERS 'I'KI.EOnAMS.J ELECTION j o’i TIN'GS LONDON, October 15. Air AlaoDonnlil liad a great send-off from % Newcastle to-day, j'or lii.s tour or Yorkshire and Lancashire. In a , speech at Gateshead, lie said “\Ye are determined and expect to have a great victory. No intelligent person wanted to ' cud the Labour Government.” At a. Aieeting of iivevjthouKaiul at Edinburgh, ho was accorded a reception. He appealed to the country to send hack Labour in sullieicnt numbers to defy both the other parties. So far over a dozen local Conservative and Liberal anti-Labour pacts have been arranged, with a view to not splitting the anti-Labour vote, in constituencies where at last election a triangular contest resulted in the return of a Labourite, often on a minority vote. Many more pacts are being negotiated. The Conservative and Liberal headquarters, arc not couolenaneiog such pacts, but are not opposing them. It is' thus likely that by the 201 b. ol November a substantial number of the seventy triangular poll tests ol last \ election "ill have been avoided. Up to the present the Liberals have been more really than -the Conservatives to agree to make such pacts. For example Liverpool Conservatives declined to make any arrangement.