Nov. 15.
Bouuine for the general elections in the British isles begins to-day, and the booths in many constituencies will remain open until late in the evening, doubtless as a concession to Labour, as the voting could not be assigned to a Saturday. Hence the result is not expected until to-morrow afternoon, and what that result is likely to be the telegrams have been chary of venturing to forecast. Mr. Bonar Law's pronouncements are cautious, not to say dull. Mr. Lloyd George skirmishes with lambent wit but appears to have offered no definite programme. Labour demands a levy on capital "'as the only method of dealing with the National Debt,'' which is the last thing it would do: this proposal is likely to set everyone who saved up a little money and invested in War loans dead against Labour. Meanwhile, the per-usual of the candidates' speeches, said Reuter recently, ''must be bewildering to the electorate for there is no clear-cut issue like Home Rule or tariff reform." And in a later message: '""The electoral confusion is such that scarcely a paper yesterday agreed even on the totals of the nominations." However, the latter were eventually worked out as follows,
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