SUFFRAGETTE DISTURBANCES.
RAID ON HOUSE OF COAIMONS. SEVENTY "WOMEN ARRESTED. United Press Association—Copyright (Received Feb. 12, 11.42 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 12. .Suffragists met at Caxton Hall i. >.u all parts of England, with Airs. Patrick Lawrence presiding, and Misses Pankhurst and Kennedy supparting her. It was resolved to demand an immediate measure of the franchise, and to appoint a deputation to see Sir H. Campbell-Banner-man. Aleaawhile the previously-ar-ranged raid on the House of Commons was developing, and a pantechnicon van stopped at- the entrance to S’t. Stephen’s, its 'backdoors swung open, and thirty suffi.igettes emerged, and endeavored to storm the entrance. Tlie police arrested twenty, and .the rest’were repulsed. A second v«i}-load met with the same .rate. The Dayton Hall contingents then arrived in quick succession, with the ■intention of compelling 100 nr-rests, - t the lack of spirit- on the part of bi. militants and the" determination the . " police to effect- only necessary of the . VvtalLing 50, defeated the arrests, \
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2114, 13 February 1908, Page 3
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160SUFFRAGETTE DISTURBANCES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2114, 13 February 1908, Page 3
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