12 OCTOBER 1918, Page 3

The Daily News of Wednesday published a number of answers

which it had received from the Lord Mayors and Mayors throughout the country about the desirability of a November election. The answers were overwhelmingly hostile to an election. Indeed, there were only two exceptions to a unanimously hostile opinion. The Mayors disapproved of the proposal to hold a General Election on such grounds as the absence of an issue to put before the country ; the dislike of the electors for an election at present ; the intcrruption of the war activities of the nation ; and the introduction of political strife when concentration on the war is the urgent need.