AT DAGGERS DRAWN.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3482, 10 May 1920, Page 5

AT DAGGERS DRAWN.

BRITISH POLITICAL SENSATION. —--—« LIBERALS BREAK WITH COA£'I‘i‘.IUNISTS. A DISGRACEFUL ‘INCIDENT. ‘ ' I _.,__... ‘ LoNl)o'N‘,‘:»Ta.y 8. six hundred deleggai"es attended 3 meeting of .the National_ Liberal Federation at. Leamington. The meeting caused ,-_;.eat excitement in View of the break between the two wings of the party. The Attorney-General (Sir G. Hewart), Dr. Addison, Mr Kellaway, Dl-_ l\lacN-a.mara, Mr McCurdy, and Sir \Vnl. Sutherland‘, who represented the Coalition I\linisters: were ’ greeted with booing on entering the Hall. It was immediately evident rthat Asquithians were in an overwhelming majority. The,Federat.io_n executives submitted :1 resolution declining Mr Lloyd George ’s invitation for fusion, declaring the continuance of the Coalition was -caleqleifécl rfo mislead the electors." '' 1 '

‘A Sir:"‘George Lunn, who presided, said there was no hope of Mr Lloyd George returning to the Liberal fold. Jonah would not..swallow the Whale. The Whale, as usual, swallowed Jonah. Disorder was continuous when the coalitionists spoke. Dr. Addison was interrup«‘e<_l again and again. Dr. Mac.\’amara, in a fighting speech, was continually booed. While Mr Kella~ way was speaking the scene was pan(lemoninm, culminating in Mr Kel.la.\\'a_V saying he preferred the company of his present associates to some of those who took refuge in the tabernacle in order to assassinate rihe late Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. There were cries of “Liar," and the uproar was so great that the AttorneyGeneral led the eoalitionists from the hall and held a protesi. meeting on the steps of "the town hall. A federation resolution was carried unanimousl_V.A niass meeting of the Coalitionl’.iberal:< will be held in ‘London next week, when the Ministers who were prevented from speaking at I.eaniing—.loll will state the case of the Coali~ finn_ ‘ _ _ I\l[oniher;< of the House of Commons are also organising electoral machinery to safeguard their positions in their constituencies.