BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 708, 13 January 1910, Page 4

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

London, January 10

Replying at Widley to repeated statements that Mr Joseph Chamberlain was incapable of writing a single word, and was practically an imbecile, and that his son Austen wrote the letters in favor of Tariff Reform, appearing over his father’s name, Mr Austen Chamberlain said he would not comment on such a cruel, indecent lie, but he would contradict it publicly. Sir IS. H. Carson, at Morpeth, also denied these statements as inventions.

Writing to Sir Henry Norman, Mr Winston Churchill declared that the German and American tariffs had conspicuously failed to prevent uuimploymeut. Although the German was willing to eat horseflesh and black bread, he was hopelessly inferior to his British comrade as a producer, and although the Americans have a vast virgin continent there was greater instability of trade, unemployment, and more bankruptcy than in Britain.

The Friedrich Bayer Company, of ISlberfield, with a capital of 36 millions of marks, has arranged to open chemical works in England capable of supplying the British demand if Tariff Reform is introduced. The Bayer firm already manufactures patented articles in England in consequence of the Patent Act. There will be no election contests at West Birmingham, Durham City, or Cumberland. In 54 constituencies there will be three-cornered contests. Sir Hugh Bell, ironmaster, stands for the City of London on behalf of the Liberals. Cornish granite workers compelled the abandonment of Mr Lloyd-George’s torchlight procession at Falmouth. They were incensed because orders for granite for the Forsyth naval base- had been given to nweigr'c The?;, wa- an ar.gvv Uvroonslralion at the railway s..a!in,i, and the police 0 -enrted Mr Lloyd George ; a,; i-is motur-cuv,