VIOLENT SUFFRAGETTES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1871, 3 October 1913, Page 7

VIOLENT SUFFRAGETTES.

C* DETECTIVES' CLOTHES TORN OFF THEIR BACKS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, October 1. After a desperate straggle, in which tho detectives clothes were torn off their backs. Miss Kerr and Mrs. Sanders, two well-known Suffragettes, wore rearrested under the "Cat-and-Mouso" Act at their headquarters in Kingsway, where they wero preparing for tho autumn campaign. Four Suffragettes were fined 405., or a month in prison, for obstructing the police. A WEEK OF PRAI'ER. "Times" —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, Ootober 1. A national week of prayer has been organised by religious women Suffragists, who aver that tho enfranchisement of woman would bo in accordance with the will of God. THE UNEXPURGATED CASE. AGAINST WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, October 1. Sir Amroth Wright has published a book entitled "The Unexpurgated Case against Woman Suffrago," in which he states that tho woman voter in the colonies is only a pawn in tho game of politics of tho opportunist politicians who enfranchised her. iMoreover, lie declares, there is no woman's question in the colonics. English women who aro threatened with starved, frustrated lives can emigrate and go into a humbler social class, where thoy can earn a living, and possibly become mothers.