WOMEN AND THE VOTE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1915, 25 November 1913, Page 7

WOMEN AND THE VOTE.

DEPUTATION TO MR. LLOYDGEORGE. By Toless&pli—Prcea Association—Oopyrisfct London, November 83, Sir. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of tho Exohcquor, in reply to Suffrage deputations at Oxford, said_ hp refused to wreck the Government's prospects and measures for the suffrage -question. Ho declared that had the Insurance Act been submitted to a plebiscite when passing tho House of . Commons, it would probably havo been thrown out. Tho Suffrage movement must also have a party machine behind it. Forcible feeding was the only alternative to starvation or tho abandonment of th© whole law of social organisation. MORE INCENDIARISM. London, November 24. Suffragettes partly burned the Blackburn Rovers' (football club) grandstand, and destroyed a boat-house at Eastville Park, Bristol, and many of tho boats. Tho damage is estimated at £3000.

MRS. PANKIIURST'S RETURN. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Reo. November 24, 6 p.m.) London, November 23. Tho Women's -Social and Political Union is organising a monster meeting at Earl's Court oil December 7, to celebrate Mrs. Pankhurst's home-coming. Efforts will bo made meanwhile to raise a large amount as a gift to tho Suffragette loader. It is uncertain whether Mrs. Pankharst will bo rearrested on her return.