The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
COALITION LOOMS AS FORCES UNITE AGAINST PREMIER
English Liberals With draw In Favor Of
 Conservatives .....
tBy Associated Press.l

LONDON, Oct. s1S.-With the par liamentary elections only 12 days away and the campaign at it's hottest nobody would venture today to predict the re- suit for it is generally acknowledged that anything may happen ,.a .
 The government party still professes complete confidence in the outcome of ' the voting but it was asserted that the hearts of most of the labor candidates are less buoyant than when the cam paign opened. Outside the ranks of the labor. few persons are to be found who believe that labor win come back with majority in the lower house.
 Odds Favor Conservatives
 Tn fact, the impression is growing that as in the last parliament, the con servatives again will have the strong est personnel. Should thatahappen, the government of Ramsay E Macdonald, should it again come into bower, would be quickly defeated by combined vote of the conservatives and liberals and a conservative ministry would be formed. But it is considered 'inconeeivable that 1.-the liberal party will not claim a price, for it's electorial sacrifices in withdrawing candidates for the bene- fit of conservative constituents in the triangular fight, and that this price will be the inclusion of some liberal min isters in a government which would thereby become a coalition ministry. Z Until the nominations are completed tomorrow the exact situation will not be known, but up to the present this dissipation of triangular contests has been effected almost entirely at the expense of the labor party while the withdrawal of candidates has consisted very largely of liberals. As the list stands tonight, 210 triangular contests are balances against 263 last year.
 S TriangIes Eliminated
 In nearly 50 constituencies which the laborites last year won on a ma jority vote owing to triangular fights there will be in the coming elections straight fights between labor and anti labor candidates and it seems almost sure that in many of these contests labor will be defeated, assuming that there will not be tremendous land slide in favor of labor. 'E
 iA ACAuACA 0AdNOOudAu dDSOlQbC uG11- arce of the liberal party naturally cuts off any possible change of accommodate tien between the labor and the liberal parties such as happened between the conservatives and the liberals.
 The candidates already nominated are reckoned roughly as conservatives $40, laborites 490 and liberals $40, the liberals thus falling to third place. And in political circles it would cause no surprise to see this position stereo- typed in the election resulted.
 The campaign speech-making is rag ing daily, but the absence of any out standing party cry to excite the man in the street is noteworthy the ordi-, nary elector understands too little about Russia to be greatly disturbed about the Anglo Russian treaty, hence the campaign has become a mere labor yersus-anti-labor matter
 Wants Decent Fight
 At Barry this afternoon, Premier Macdonald complained bitterly that the press and the opposition parties were consistently misrepresenting the labor party's policy and he appealed to his opponents to make "a decent intellec- tual fight of it.