BRITISH ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1931, Page 6

BRITISH ELECTIONS

MR LLOYD CEORCE. broadcast! A speech- ( United Press Association.—By Electrlo Telegraph.—(Jopyngno.j this day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 15. Recalling the laet that this was the first general election in which he had not participated for 41 ye..rs, Mr Lloyd George broadcasting From Chart said that as the consequence of a wrong deer-stony it may be the most grave. An old’servant of the people may he forgiven for uttering a Word of caution. It is a mean suggestion that the masses of the gallant workers, who suffered the horrors of war for the country* are not truly National, unless they join the Tory Party and rain a tax on the peoples’ bread' and meat. He reiterated the anti-tariff arguments, adding that there was an improbability of the election resulting in a Socialist majority. NOMINATION DAY NEAR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S CONFIDENCE. LONDON, October 15. The imminence of nomination day led to many fuither arrangements to pre r : vent cut throat contests, including the withdrawn! of Finsbury to Min;-, ister Uillett-. a straightout fight against Labour. Mr Neville Chamberlain denying that the -Conservatives were putting party before the nation, said lie was confident that if they had gone to the country on their own programme, they would have had a working majority, but they threw in their right to avert a catastrophe. He believed it would he followed by the placing in Britain of such a voume of orders as might even prove to be the self-starter of a would engine.