SUFFRAGETTES AND POLICE.
ILL-TREATMENT ALLEGED. Oy Tclesrapli—Press Association—CoDyrlelit. h-«« Lcfldon, February 23.: The Women's Parliamentary Suffrage Committee will ask ilr. Winston Churchill, Homo,;.' Secretary, for a public inquiry into the way in which tho police acted towards suffragettes' during the period from-.Nftvcmber 18 to 23. , , ; , • The committee alleges that the police interpreted tho order not to make arrests as a license to do as they pleased. Onlookers- state that , women... .were struck'with fists, their arms twisted, and thumbs bent back, their breasts crushed, and their skirts raised,'~aiid' that other indecencies..wejTOj4rOJnmjttc4 by tho police, i '
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1061, 25 February 1911, Page 5
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94SUFFRAGETTES AND POLICE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1061, 25 February 1911, Page 5
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