WOMEN’S FRANCHISE.
A LONDON PROCESSION.
“A SQUEEZING PROCESS.”
United Press Association— Copyright. (Received June 15, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 14. Ten- thousand women suffragists marched from London Embankment to Albert Hall with the object of convincing Mr. Asquith that the educated -woman demands tho franchise. Tho parties, carrying appropriate banners mud fbaiuierottefcj included shorthand writers, typists, authors, musicians, politicians, nurses, graduates, under-graduates wearing caps and gowns, and also a party of colonials beneath a- banner inscribed “Trust the women, mother, -as I have ( l°La’dv Russell, Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton, and Mrs. Pembor Hooves accompanied tlio procession, which largo crowds watched in the viciiiity of Albert Hall. Speaking at Albert Hall, Lady Henry Somerset deprecated the more militant methods.
Lady Francis Balfour declared that though (Mr. Asquith was less favorable to -franchise than tho late Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, he could be squeezed, and her advice was lot the women continue the peaceful pro-, cess of squeezing.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2217, 15 June 1908, Page 3
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154WOMEN’S FRANCHISE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2217, 15 June 1908, Page 3
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