COMING GENERAL ELECTION

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1929, Page 5

COMING GENERAL ELECTION

UNIQUE ELECTION PROPAGANDA. RADIO AND TALKIE FI LAIS. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON. February 21. Elaborate arrangements are already in hand for the British General election. It is an election unlike any ever fought before in England, llie Oratory and propaganda will he mass-pro-duced by mechanised means, such as wireless loud speakers, films and “talkie” films. These will lie all used in the effort to reach the whole Kingdom. The chief National Agent of each party is organising these new aids. Most of the electors, regardless of their Habitation, will hear speeches (from Messrs Baldwin. MacDonald and Lloyd George hundreds of miles distant from where the speeches are delivered. The three Party leaders will broadcast speeches at the outset of the campaign, and again on the eve of the poll. In addition, where ever a member of the Cabinet or a Party Leader speaks, the speeches will he relayed on telephone wires and loud speakers to a series of other meetings. It is hoped thereby to address as many as twenty meetings simultaneously. Scores of talking films will he used throughout the Kingdom. The total of the electors is expected to he twenty-eight millions, as compared with twenty-two millions in the 1924 general election.