London, Oct. 21, An appeal for Liberal support. jand a vigorous attack on the Conservatives was made by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in the course of a jspeceh at the Hippodrome, Sheffield, where he had an enthusiastic recep: tion from an audience of over 4,000 persons. Thousands of others were tunable to gain admission. Queues [were formed outside the building at 6 oclock in the morning, The Premier declared that the Jeampaign was to him like a whiff lof victory, but a grim struggle was ahead next week. He said that his opponents would not leave any stone unturned to damage Labour because that party had been too successful in caring for the interests of the country at home and abroad. If there was any danger lof extremism in Britain, it would jerome when an incompetent Tory government was in office. The Premier, in: appealing for Liberal support, claimed that Labour had the Liberal spirit widened, broad-joned and heightened.
Lord Birkenhead, speaking London, said that he believed that the heart of the nation was sound and true and would repudiate the jinad economic philosophy derived from the hysterical writings Karl Marx. He declared that he had found everywhere a stern de-{termination not to permit the crime jof lending money to Russia, which }was the most important issue of the election, Marquess Curzon, speaking in London, said that the Russian loan thad disturbed the commercial community more than any proposal of the Labour Government, whose assumption of office was a'feolish and fatuous experiment due to the stupidity of the Liberal Party. He ticuled Mr. MccDonald's asser-that his Government in eight months had contributed more to peace than all the other parties in the last eight "years, Marquess Curzon said' that he himself had received a personal and private asjsuranee from each of the Dominion
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