BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1922, Page 8

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES. LEADERS SUFFERING FROM STRAIN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 10. Mr. Asquith, speaking at Newcastle, saijd that if the Tories were to govern for five years he hoped a living and powerful Opposition would be formed which would function better than the bodyguard suggested lay the ex-JPire-mier. Lord Novar, speaking at Glasgow, in support of the Prime Minister, said he had decided to support any Government, whatever its political label, which would undertake to deal energetically with the financial situation at home. Mr. Bonar Law was a man with a real Scottish aspect for the bawbees, who expressed himself in sober language, not in the pelting hurricane of oratory of Celtic politicians who saw visions and dreamed dreams. Lord Londonderry, speaking in London, appealed to opponents of the Irish Treaty to broaden their outlook and realise that it is a far higher aspiration to be a member of a great body of associated nations like the British Empire than to concentrate on their own grievances and decry |he British name. Lord. Derby, responding to the toast of the Army at the Lord Mayor’s banquet at the Guildhall, said they should i efuse to cut down the army below what he believed the safety stage for the Empire. Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. Lloyd George and. Mr. Asquith are all suffering from the strain of electioneering. Mr. Bonar Law has been ordered by his doctors to remain in bed for a few days. Accordingly to-morrow’s engagements at Manchester and Sheffield are cancelled. Mr. Asquith telegraphed to Paisley asking to be excused from to-night’s meeting owing to fears that his voice may fail. I Mr. Lloyd George, on medical advice, ’ was unable to unveil a war memorial at Llandudno. ife. LLOYD GEORGE IN WALES. * London, Nov. 9. Mr. Lloyd George had enthusiastic receptions on his Welsh tour. Speaking at Cardiff, he said that since the Carlton Club resolution the exchanges of Europe had collapsed. France, they were told, was delighted that his Government had gone and that she was now going to get compensation in reparation from Germany, yet her money had gone down as it had never done before, while Germany had completely collapsed. That was the result of the confidence that was going to be restored to Europe by getting rid of the man of excessive energy and vitality. .