BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1922, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE GENERAL ELECTIONS. MAY BE POSTPONED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright. London, April 6. ••ell-informed quarters assert that Messrs. Lloyd George and Chamberlain have definitely oecided to defer the general election till the autumn, meanwhile submitting resolutions as to the reform of the House of Lords after the Genoa, Conference. Mr. Lloyd George, replying to questions in the House of Commons, said that he did not recollect giving Mr. Hiddleston in 1919 the interview referred to in a recent cablegram. At such a distance of time he could not recall aTT the interviews he gave in Paris. He was not prepared to say he did not have a conversation. The full text of the interview published in the Westminster Gazette, as representing his views at the time, contained grave inaccuracies and omissions. Reputable journalists usually furnished him with proofs of interviews.

[A cable from London, dated April 1, stated: The Paris correspondent of the Westminster Gazette explains that Mr. Lloyd George gave him for publication, in March, 1919, the substance of the memorandum on the Peace Conference, as cabled on March 24, conditional, on his not publishing its source. Three hundred and seventy members of the House of Commons subsequently sent a telegram to Mr. Lloyd George, when he was in Paris, expressing alarm at the views given in the Westminster Gazette as emanating from the British peace delegation. Thereupon Mr. Lloyd George denied that the statements possessed any authenticity.] DIEHARD CONSERVATIVES. STRENGTH REVEALED. London, April 6. Sir Joynson Hicks’ motion against the Government last night is generally regarded as a fiasco. An analysis of the voting reveals the fact that only 35 diehard Conservatives voted for it. The rest of the minority comprised 20 Wee Frees ana 40 Labor members.