BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1922, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

CAMPAIGN NEARING END.

FREAK ELECTION FEATS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 15. Received. Nov. 1,5, 10.25 p.m. Freak election feat* are scattered v.ery sparsely through the final efforts to raise the campaign from the somewhat stodgy plane which has marked it. Mr. C. E. Fry’s capture of Madame Clara Butt to sing at his Brighton meeting shows the brightest. Her duet with Mr. Kennerley Rumford, "The Keys of Heaven,” struck the major note of the whole elections, in which all parties, by press, pamphlet and platform, are beseeching that unknown quantity, woman: "Madam, will you walk and talk with me?” A section of the Labor Party have discovered the merits of howling down their opponents. The break-up of Mr. Churchill’s meeting at Dundee was repe-.ttd in several London constituencies. The general outlook has changed little. There is increasing confidence among the Conservative tipsters, except in Scotland, where, despite a combination of Liberals againsr. Labor, a note of nervousness has crep: in at the eleventh hour. Another feature has been the gradual diminuendo of wav cries with which Mr. Lloyd George’s part/ commenced the campaign.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.