Dec 6.
Potuinc for Parliamentary candidates starts to-day in Great Britain, but the final result can hardly be known for several days. Even so it shows a return to pre-war custom. The: 1918 election was a distinct departure from all previous systems, for voting by postcard was introduced, and soldiers on foreign service in France and Germany and wounded men in hospital were thus enabled to record their suffrages. Moreover, where there was the chance of any dubiety between two different constituencies to which men might belong, they had the option of choosing either. The election was accordingly slow, cumbrous and expensive, for instead of being able to announce their views by word of mouth to all electors, candidates had to send sheafs of literature to people sometimes two or three days' journey distant. That was a distinct necessity of the case, for it would have been nothing short of criminal had the men who fought the war found themselves debarred from voting because of their temporary status and environment. This, happily, is no NUnit sma Re aS aa tacos ies longer the case and we ought to know the result within a few
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