Mud-Slinging at Tavistock: "The Dirtiest Contest Since War"
London, Oct. 10.
Unusual interest is being taken' In the Tavistock by-election, Which de necessary owing to the death of Major P. P. Kenyon Slaney, se. the late member. Polling begins tomorrow. The candidates are Brigadier-Gen, W. D. Wright, (Conservative)
ject-Commander R, T. Fletcher (Liberal)
R. Davies (Labour), 'The constituency is spread over'
very wide area. It includes the rural district of Dartmoor and the industrial northern outskirts of Plymouth and has very strong Liberal, traditions, 'Tre keenness of the fight, the Liberals describe as the Aiest and with the most mud-stinging since the Wav" is shown by the fact that both Six William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, and Mr. Loyd' George, the Liberal leader, have addressed the electors
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