"FEMALE HOOLIGANS."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1745, 9 May 1913, Page 3

"FEMALE HOOLIGANS."

■ SIR CONAN DOYLE ON TEE SUFFRAGETTES. London, April 29. Sir A. Conan Doylo fiercely denounced tho Suffragettes at a meeting, at winch he spoko in Wells, Somerset, yesterday evening. "It is necessary, said tlio famous author, "to differentiate between tho honest, constitutional Suffragettes and those female hooligans. But even more contemptiblo is that class of people who hnd them tlio means with which to carry out their malicious monkey tricks. "It would stem that the only Hung the militants can'do in the way of meanness is to Wow up n blind man and his dog. They imagino that in a proud old nation like ours they can move men by an jiplical to their fears to do something which their knowledge tells tlieni is not right. ,r \Vo can proudly boast that m our country are soma of the best women ill tho world, but I would not be honest if I did not admit that ' tl.ere were also some of tho worst, who hnd lei. down the fail' name and dignity of English wornan'l°S;r' Conan Dovlo prophesied that the ri"ht to vote would not como to the women for a generation.- Sydney bun.