SUFFRAGIST AGITATION
SUFFRAGIST PRISONERS RELEASED.
RESULT OF A “HUNGER STRIKE.” United Press Association —Copyright (Received July 20, 11.30 p.in.) LONDON, July 20. • Two suffragette window breakers in Holloway gaol have been released because they refused to eat. [The female political prisoners in England are evidently using a plan' which has been employed with effect by political prisoners in Russia, that of the “hunger strike,” or voluntary starvation. & This was the only method by which Russian “politicals” could obtain amelioration of their, treatment. T e suffragist “politicals” have ' resorted to it because they were put in the same section with criminals of a had class.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2559, 21 July 1909, Page 5
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104SUFFRAGIST AGITATION Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2559, 21 July 1909, Page 5
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