BRITISH ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1924, Page 3

BRITISH ELECTIONS

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OgBLK ASSOCIATION. TIIK ZJNOVIEFF LETTER. HOW C'( IXSER VAT I V.ES GOT IT. (Received this day at 0.2,3 a.in.) LON DON, November I. The “ Daily Chronicle ” understands the'Cabinet Committee, being satisfied ivitli the authenticity of the Zinovielf letter, is now trying to discover how the press secured a copy. The following facts have been established:—There were three or four letters of a -similar character despatched from .Moscow and carried by special messengers. Communist headquarters received one, the Foreign Office received another on the 10th of October. One of the letters was handed to a very prominent Conservative cx-.Mbl-ister on the 22nd of October on the occasion of the marriage of Rtidyard Kipling’s daughter. This was released to the press by the Conservative Headquarters. The Foreign Office was informed on 24th October than the letter had been handed to the press and the Foreign Office immediately released it with Mr MacDonald’s letter, which was prepared for such an emergency. The Committee has discovered how the letter reached the Conservative e.xM mister.

A BYE-ELECTION. MR ASQUITH’S CHANCES. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, -November 5. There is a likelihood of Mr Kenyon (Liberal) resigning; the Chesterfield division of Derbyshire and Mr Asquith succeeding him. It is unlikely a Chesterfield Unionist will oppose Mr Asquith. AIR MacDOXAT/D RESIGNS. (Received this (lav at 10.25 a.m.) LOXDOX, Nov. 4. "• MacDonald has resigned. Mr Baldwin becomes Prime Minister. MR CHURCHILL FOR SINGAPORE. LOXDOX, Xovember 4. The Hon Winston Churchill and other Constitutionalist Commoners wore given a dinner at the Constitutionalist Club by prominent Conservatives. _ Mr Ronald McXcill, in proposing a toast during the evening, referred to Mr Churchill never having been deficient in backbone and plentifully endowed with spirit, for which there was never more need. Mr Churchill, replying, declared that Socialism was the very antithesis of Liberalism. He looked forward to seeing Parliament take up the broken pledges given the Dominions at the Imperial conference and also to seeing the spade set to work again on the naval base at Singapore. Lord Birkenhead solemnly declared that the first task of statesmenship was to solve the unemployment problem. He also commented on the increased Socialist vote at the elections.