THE SUFFRAGETTES.
MR, LLOYD-GEORGE: HECKLED,
("United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 6. . Mr. Lloyd George attempted to, address a crowded meeting of the Women's Liberal Federation upon women's suffrage in the Albert Hall, but the militant suffragists refused to give him a hearing. The stewards of the*- meeting carried out dozens of women, struggling and fighting, but others chained themselves to tho pillars and chairs and could not be removed.
Finally, Mr. George was compelled to stop speaking.
Sometimes twenty scrummages were proceeding simultaneously in different parts of the hall. Some threw aside their cloaks, and . appeared in prison dress. Several of the'interrupters were very badly handled by the stewards. Mr. George succeeded in stating that the Government would draft an Electoral Reform Bill, enabling a women's suffrage amendment to be introduced. If this were carried, the Government would accept rthe responsibility, buL wero unable to introduce a. Bill themselves, a sincere, but powerful minority of the Cabinet being opposed to women's suffrage.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 December 1908, Page 7
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162THE SUFFRAGETTES. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 December 1908, Page 7
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