AMAZING FEATURES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 October 1931, Page 3

AMAZING FEATURES

(Press Assn.—

CAMPAIGN LIVENS UP sportsmen take the field to support national candidates VIOLENT SCENES IN NORTH

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

Rec. Oct. 20. 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Monday. There were violent scenes at election meetings to Glasgow and Liverpool. At Liverpool two speakers were injured by stone throwing when an open-air meeting on behalf of Mr Eric Ellington, Conservative candidate for the Scotland division of Liverpool, was broken up. The Glasgow police, before the start of Sir Oswald Mosley's meeting at St. Andrew's Hall, ordered the doors to be locked. Thousands stormed the entrance, however, and the two doors were smashed. Sir Oswald Mosley asked that the public be admitted by the police, but the management refused on account of the damage already done. He afterwards attempted to address the crowd outside from his car, but the police advised him to go to a hotel. Mr Arthur Henderson, leader of the Labour Party, this morning, through the "Daily Herald", appeals to his supporters for a fair hearing for his opponents. Stink Bombs Used The opposition wrecked a meeting held by Mr. Dunean, Conservative candidate for North Kensington. Free fights occurred and stink bombs were thrown into the schoolroom and stones . outside. The speaker was howled down at a National Labour meeting at Peckham, where he described his opponents as "a lot of eannibals." The crowd smashed the windows of a committee room of Sir Frederiek Hall, Conservative candidate for East Dulwich. The Premier's son, Mr. Alistair MacDonald was howled down at a Na-tional-Labour meeting in Essex. An amazing feature of the election is the number of sportsmen intervening, usually on behalf of the National Party, though Sir Oswald Mosley's engagement of "Kid" Lewis, the pugilist, is an exception, as is that of Perry the tennis player, who is assisting his father, who is Labour candidate for Kettering. C. Donoghue and Freddy Fox, jockeys, addressed meetings to-night at Dudley in support of the Conservative candidate, Mr Dudley Joel, son of Mr. S. C. Joel. Famous Athlete's Campaign Lord Burghley, the hurdler, is contesting the Peterborough seat against Mr. Horrabin, the Socialist cartoonist. Lord Burghley, who is a Conservative, is eclipsing every speed record, dashing round his big constituency in a motor-car, addressing fifty meetings weekly. Even more novel is Mr. Noel Whiteside, Conservative candidate for Central Leeds, who is an airman, and is leading a squadron of aeroplanes piloted by friends round his constituency. On Saturday an enterprise of an even greater scale is an air circus composed of famous pilots who have cancelled all engagements for the period of the election, in order to canvas by air "on behalf of the National Party." Miss Winifred Spooner and Lady Burley are among the women pilots who are giving their services.

Speed boats have also been organised to assist the National candidates in riverside constituencies. Finally, a flying squad of young motorists is engaged in so-called "tip and run" visit to constituencies where Labour members were returned at last election. They propose to park their cars-on street corners to attract bystanders. Each car is an open tourer with three or four speakers among the passengers, who will deliver brief addresses on the lines of the "two minute men" in the United States during the world war. The meetings promise to be very lively, but the organisers say that the flying squad will be able to deal with Communist roughs.