Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-24
VOTERS IN BRITAIN
WARNED OF CANARD
Labor Peer Fears Something
Like "Zinovieff Letter"
in 1924 Campaign.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, October 24.-All parties in
the most harried and strenuous election
campaign Great Britain has witnessed
in years rounded the turn today with
eyes right, and shiver OF fear lest the
ghost of the notorious "Zinovieh let
ter" walk again on the eve Of the voting.
Lord Arnold, Labor peer, warned the
electorate there would be IAN attempt
to scare the people" with something
like the famous purported Russian doc
uments which appeared at the last
minute in the 1924 campaign and to
which the Labor party attributed its
defeat.
There also we're whisperings that the
Labor party had up its sleeve a disclos-
ure Of secret financial correspondence"
which would be aimed at blasting the
prospects of the national government
and its followers.
Both Sides Claim Victory.
In the meantime. both sides claimed
victory today, with the voting only
three days away. The supporters of
Prime Minister Macdonald assured the
country he would be given the doctors
mandate" he asks, by huge majority
in Parliament. The oppositionists, led
by the veteran Uncle Arthur" Hen
derson, former foreign minister, just
as confidently predicted the national
governments defeat.
The campaign has been one of the
most bitter the country has known in
modern times. Speakers have been
howled down hundreds of times, heads
have been Dashed and some candidates
have gone about with bodyguards.
In London financial circles today a
landslide for the Macdonald forces was
predicted, but in other quarters it was
pointed out that London is "a long way
from the great industrial centerS of the
midlands and the north, where there is
much unemployment and the cuts in
the dole" count as most important
factor.
Seaham Race Close.
Prime Minister MacDonald's own
SObOSoI az 0CdAAollI, AiAo OPPOoASEOAl
is william Coxon, the village school
master, was the subject of as much
speculation as any. The prime minister
himself has said he is having 1.-The fight
Of his life" and, although his sup
porters feel confident that his large
personal following will win for him,
reports from the constituency are con-
flicting
Besides this conflict. there is the the
vonce Of the veteran gray prophet, Da-
vid Lloyd George, Liberal war premier.
IN the fray as candidate in spite of
his recent illness, who declared in an
interview published in the Daily Herald,
Labor organ, yesterday that the return
Of Macdonald and the Tory protection
lists would be disastrous to all progress
and would put the clock back 80 years"
He has urged Liberal Free-Traders to
support Labor Free-Traders in con-
stituencies where there is no Liberal
candidate running and in his statement
yesterday he declared there is no such
thing as temporary emergency tariff,
first introduced as a postwar emsr-
gency."
Woman Candidates Active.
Woman candidates have shouldered
their share of the hurly-burly CAM
paign among them Lady Aston, native
OF Virginia; flashing, petite and fiery
Megan Lloyd-George, daughter and
close companion of the veteran Liberal
member of the former Labor cabinet
and first woman to hold cabinet post
in Britain, and England's own Mary
Pickford, the Hon. Mary Pickford, c.
B. E., who is the Conservative candi-
date for Hammersmith, North.