AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 27 April 1917, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FEDERAL ELECTIONS. Received 11.5. SYDNEY, this day. Both sides are putting all their strength into the Federal Election campaign. The main issues, which have largely swamped the bickerings of the now divided Labourites, are the attempts of one side to reincarnate and the other to effectually lay conscription. The ghost of the Political Labour, League advocates that, when the election is over the country must b e free from another conscription referendum. The Liberals loudly disclaim any such intention. Both sides, however, are up against one solid trouble. The women movement is iri full swing, in the shape of a cliain-'ret-ter binding the recipient to write to the district candidates to pledge them selves for anti-shouting legislation, also to call public meetings and otherwise stir things upT With the s~ame

object each recTpient Ts on the letter to three other women. Postmen are already feeling the, weight of the chain. THE FUTURE OF GERMANS IN AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, thi s day. At an election meeting a question was asked whether, in the event of a British victory the Germans would be allowed to enter Australia. Mr Hug-'ies replied that it depended upon the party returned at the election. If he was returned, the Germans certainly would not be admitted.