SUFFRAGETTE COMEDY
& IN HYDE PARK A SUNDAY AFTERNOON INCIDENT By Tclecra-ph—Press Aeeocintlom-Copyrlitht ■Times" and Rvilnov "Suii" Services. (Ilea April 28, 0.35 p.m.) London, April 27. Thousands of amused spectators witnessed a Suffragette incident at Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon. The Suffragettes proposed to hold n meeting in .boats on the Serpentina, but the authorities would ivyt allow tho demonstration, and moored tho boats in tho middle of tho Serpentine. Two of the Suffragettes throw off their clothing and entered the water in bathing costumes, and while the spectators cheered, swam to the boats and cut them adrift. A third arrived by motor-car, also attired in a bathing dress, and sho. also dived into tho water. All tlireo were arrested by the- boatmen and escorted through the immense, jeering crowd to tho Hydo Park Police. Station, whore they wero charged, and subsequently released.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2135, 29 April 1914, Page 7
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142SUFFRAGETTE COMEDY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2135, 29 April 1914, Page 7
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