THE SUFFRAGISTS.
VIOLENT DISTURBANCE AT MEN’S
MEETING
United Presb Association —Copyright LONDON, Oct. 20.
Whilst Mr Winston Churchill was addressing - a meeting of 3000 men at Dundee, despite elaborate barricades around the hall, suffragettes entered a neighboring garret. They broke a skylight, and stones crashed into the hall. Five suffragettes were arrested, including one who hid in “the chimney and attempted to escape from the police. (Received October 21, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, October 21.
The suffragists tried to destroy the telegraph wires, to prevent the transmission of a report of the Hon. Walter Ruriciman’s speech at Radcliffe. Several arrests were made over the affair. [The Hon. Walter Runciman is President of the Committee of Education.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2639, 22 October 1909, Page 5
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115THE SUFFRAGISTS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2639, 22 October 1909, Page 5
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