VETO CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10142, 12 November 1910, Page 5

VETO CONFERENCE.

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

0 NO HOPE OF SUCCESS.

Received November 11, Ip.m. LONDON, November 10. I'he Press Association states that there is hardly the faintest hope of a successful issue of the Veto Conference. The final meeting is, it says, discussing the form in which it will announce its failure. m OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. THE CONFERENCE ABORTIVE. AN ELECTION IMMINENT. A BHTER STRUGGLE ANTICIPATED. Received Last Night 9.130 p.in, LONDON, November 11. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith has authorised the following announcement to be made:— "The Conference has ended without arriving at an agreement. It is the opinion of all the members that the conditions undeY which the proceedings were held preclude any disclosure of the course of negotiations or the causes leading to their termination."'

This announcement ia interpreted as the wish of both sides to avoid recrimination, tuid to facilitate the return to the statu quo ante. The hope is widely expressed that the Conference will be regarded as a serious ar.d conscientious effort to solve, on novel lines, an unprecedented problem.

It is understood that, at last even„ ing's meeting of the Cabinet, it was decided to force an early election, namely, in December. It ia anticipated, in the highest political circles, that the contest will be one of the hottest and bitterest of modern times. The Unionists are extensively signing a protest against the "Home Rule All-round" policy. Mr Walter Lang informed the members of the Nineteen Hundred Club that Mr Balfour had authorised the statement that neithe* Imperial Federation, Home Uule, nor devolution formed any part of die discussion at the Conference.

Sir Rufus Isaacs, speaking at Reading, said he was glad tfiat tongues were now . loosened. The Liberals gloried in a fight, and would leave no stone unturned to win. .

Mr'Birrell, at Watford, referring to the approaching elections,said the Liberals wanted all the support possible in' the South and West. He added that the Norht of England would not budge an inch, neither would Scotland and Wales. A, LAMENT. WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY. Received Last' Night, 10.30 o'clock. LONDON, November 11.

The Times laments that,' the Conference has not vindicated Britain's boasted talent for political compromise and for the cautious development of its institutions. Thus, a grave constitutional issue must be decided as a mere incident in Party warfare at an election which would have to determine a dozen other issues.

It adds that, the reticence concerning the prolonged negotiations was alsurd. They were practically futile.

The Telegraph states that it desires no statement of the Conference proceedings. The Conference is dead. The Government, it says, represents the Socialist-cum-Red-mondite Radical Party.- As an independent force in politics, it is as dead as the Conference. Let the fight come when it will, henceforth a new temper will resolve to enter into the Unionist ranks. The Chronicle's leader is headed: "Open War!"