MRS. PANKHURST RELEASED
HUNGER STRIKE SDCCEEDS.
REFUSES TEMPTING DISHES OFFERED HER. MORE SUFFRAGETTE OUTRAGES. By Telegraph—Pre as Association—Copyright (Rec. April in, ti.Tj p.m.) London, April 12. Mrs. Pankhurst, leader of the militant Suffragette movement, who was sentenced las; week to three years' imprisonment for inciting the blowing up of Mr. LloydGeorge's house, has been released from gaol. ■■■"'. 1 Despite every inducement to eat, Mrs. Pankhurst rigidly maintained her hungerstrike in gaol. The prison authorities endeavoured to tempt her with attractive food, such as chops, steaks, and chickens, and as her strength, declined with more delicate dishes in the form of custards and jellies, but in spite of tho appetising odours of the dishes she remained un- ' yielding, and refused all food and all drinks, except water. CRICKET PAVILION BURNED. (Rec. April 13, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 12. Suffragettes were responsible for an explosion at and tho burning of tho Novill Cricket Club's pavilion at Tunbridgo Wells. ' • A Suflragetto has been arrested' for smashing the windows of tho "Standard" newspaper office, as a protest against tho articles published by the paper.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1723, 14 April 1913, Page 5
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180MRS. PANKHURST RELEASED Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1723, 14 April 1913, Page 5
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