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THURSDAY, DECEMBER

4,

1924

At Giensial Elections 20 or 30 years ago it was a common thing to read big post. ers telling the people that the ballot is secret. That was also impressed upon But they do Rot them by catynsstrs. need to be told it now. They know per. fectly well that it is secret, and with the knowledge is the sense of independence as to the manner in which they will cast Here again one sees an ad- This week the country is all agog with ex- their votes. citement over the Zinovier letter arging ditional reason for the decay of canvass our gentle Communists to organise seditioning. The canvasseris apt to get a sanb -among the King's soldiers, and in muni- in these days instead of a promise, to tion factories and military stores, and goto as requested for & particular candi- also to stir up the working-classes in re- date. Ta large parts of Lalov. £ um as to destroy the country told, canvassing the votes was prac Zinavies, who is supposed to be a Polish tically abandoned at this election. Jew, is President of the Third (Moscow) | ELECTION HUMOUL International and is known throughout I dare say we shall have a crop of Europe as a particularly dangerous firection stories mostly told by works brand.

That It is said that he was personally among the poorer class of voters. responsible for signing the death-warrant is the rule After eyery Gearral Election, of thousands of Russians whose only This week I heard of are old" worpan in

แกป crime" was that they owed property

who was being ural constituerey were intellectuals or bourgeoise.

pressed to be sure and go to the pol to use the can terms of the murder-She day promised. and then remarkeddi gangs of every revolution. The latter was read that the Government resigned so addressed in a man named Mellans, hend of the British Communist party.

Following so soon after a refusal of the Labour Government to face an inquiry into the Campbell case (referred to in my previgus articles), refusal so solid and determind that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald preferred to face a General Election- the country has a deeply stirred over this Russian letter. The culty with most prole is to make up their minds what it all rally meata.

that they could go to the country, and it that's the case why do they want to make such a fuss about the election in the towns! There is a different kind of story, however, relating to a Veter whe said to a canvasser, if your candidate had more brains he would be ball- witte." What the canvasser said in reply to this hostile person is not re esided. Probably n Mas rendered speechless.

The letter was in the possession of the LAST DAYS AT WEMBLEY. Foreign Offer here, and the Prime]

There Wembley closes down this week Minister, as Foreign Secretary, knew of are regrets that the exhibition has compe its existence and actually drafted a pro-, un, and, lear" that tourtit test to be suit loscow-a pratt 0gencies are pressing the authorities to strong that anything stronger wordd he say definitely whether it will be possible tantamount to a threat of war-yet he to open the great show est gear in some has been going about thy country de

form that will be worth while nud" ac livering election speeches in defence of Leket visitors from abroad as well as from the proposed Treaty with Russia. How over this countrya Bat no Pebly is any man, east of all the Prime Minister, forthcoming so far. In the closing days could get up at meetings and degiare his the altitudes from the North ae sup belief in the honesty, of the Soviet Goy-porting Wembley as they have done dur ernment which is in closest relation with i the Third International, while he had the maths that have passed. the Zinosier letter in his pocket passer understanding...

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MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S STORY.

During his mouth the attendance has never faliçe lower on one day than 27,600 The top figure was reached on. Whit Monday with 320,00%, This week I shall have occasion to refer to the the 17.000.000 attending mark for the subject again as soon as certain points whele period was reached. The Burmese are clearer than it is possible to expect and African natives left some tima agor them to be in the first flush of such a riadly it past he said, for this parti sensational disclosure. At the moment cularly enld summer was a trial to them there is a torrent of denials that the and others from sunny lands. They liked letter is genuine. It is dezounced from being at Wembley. but they did not like Moscow la a gross forgers. But public th English climate.

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the Foreign Other, with the sources of in-roon PRESERVATIVES. formation that are at the disposal of the The Ministry of Health through a De British Government, could be hoodwinkpartmental Committee bare done valu ed in a matter of this kind

able service to the ration and the world My Lloyd George states that, when be at large for that matter by the publision Free. was Prime Minister Kamenev came here cation of the final report on the use of and it was found he had sold jewels preservatives in food. The use of certain which had been stolen out of their setting.colouring matters and certain chemicals The Russian emissary was giving money is set out in the report as injurious. to semi-revolutionary organisations in such as formaldehyde ard fluorides be this country.1 geri for Kameney" caus those are definitely taxie and have says Mr. Lloyd George, and said, this a cumulative action, and salicylic acid is not playing the game. You are here and salicylates on account of their The cr as an aissary from the Sevier Govern- powerful physiological action. ment and for an official emissary of the dinary person is unable to protect him- Government to abuse his position by pro- self. He eats what is placed before him. pagating revolution, disepatent, and dis But half the articles of "diet on the table, affertion in the country where he is re- may contain at a reasonable meal over ceived is an abuse of hospitality. Then 20 grains of boric acid, to me only one Kamruey said to me. It really is not species of preservative usually considered true. I know nothing about it. But the most innocUQUIL I had in front of me at the moment the

The Committee are cot unreasonable, identical telegram that he had sent to but take into consideration the difficulties Moscow, stating I have disposed of of tall traders and the requirements jewels and given seventy-five thousand of cold storage in shops or elsewhere. At pounds to the Daily Herald**

The logical conclusion to be drawn from the same time it is pointed out that there this is that a denial from the dosiet is real danger in the use of imported

liquid eggs

and inborncised eggs,” Government is not to be believed as and it is boldly urged that the eploy- denist would be it as a denial it camement of preservatives should be prohibit- from the Government of any other coun-fed. It may interest readers on your sid

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THE PRIME MINISTER'S POSITION.

I have quoted Mr. Lloyd George be cause the story is interesting and cannot

be gainsaid, and it throws a light or the

to learn that the Chinese boracised egg"

is specialty under the ban of the medical officers of health.

There are also enuned peas and beans.

A dish of either was appetising when

activities of the present rulers of Russin it ears to table looking green and fresh

to whom the British taxpayers are invitus if only just plucked from the garden;

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ed by Mr. MacDonald to guarantee a but is the pleasure of the eye to le con- loan of 40 millions sterling. The news sided worth the risk of cirrhosis of the papers of every shade are very bitter liver or sclerosis of the pancreas due to over the disclosure respecting the Ziniviey the copper sults used by the curers? letter-even journals which up till now renoCIOUS VECKTARIANS. have been patting Mr. MacDorial on the One of the worst features of the whole busiuss is that the Premier is attempt ing to throw the responsibility of publish. ing the letter on the permanent officials" of the Foreign Office. He is the fret Minister who has gone back on hia De partment. Although he as Foreign Secr. Lary is responsible, and although the officials cannot as Civil Servants defend themselves, and further, although head mits he knew of the letter and drafted

Of the subject of diet it is amusing to note that a spirited controversy has been going on between Mr. G. Bernard Shaw,. the well-known Dr. Josiah Oldfield, divertic physician, and Mr. G. E. Chesterton. Dr. Oldfield started the dis cussion by asserting that the General Election should be preceded by a seven- day fast, as is the case among certain Primitive races, or he fought on a diet of cereals," fresh fruit and vegetables. He associates meat with political Revolu

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teaves it to be inferred that his oficials that the "Russian, peasants before the have been duped. The Press with one Bolshevik upheaval lived almost entirely But in 1014," he accord have fastened, upon this-and on a fruitarian diet, rightly so because it shows what manter points out these men were drafted into of man Mr. MacDonald is when he finds the Arty, and for the first time in their himself with his back to the wall and is lives were fed on a ration of meat daily concerned only to save his skin Lord Revolution followed.

As most people know, Mr. G. Bernard

Curzon, Forviga Secretary in the Bald- win Govemment, calls it the dirtiest Shaw is a vegetarian, and he differs pro- trick on record.”

foundly from Dr. Oldfield. "I have fre- quently commented on the characteristic Ferocity of vegetarians," he says. "The

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pect of the electioneering. I hear that I like Mr. 0. K. Chesterton's view best there is n decided disposition on the part of the three eminent disputats. He is ef electors to/resent questions about the going to eat whatever comes along and. way they intend to vote. They refuse to enjoy it, even if it leads to Revolution - commit themselves.

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