SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DIE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2173, 11 June 1914, Page 5

SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DIE

SUFFRAGETTE HUNGER-STRIKERS

( BRITAIN'S DILEMMA

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London, June 0. sir Philip Bume-Jones, the painter, interviewed, said that, tlic . Suffragette hunger-strikers should bo allowed to die; after they had been offered and had refused plenty of food. Tlio nearest relatives only should be admitted to their cells. Father Bernard Vaughan and many others hold similar views.

Many of the churches and public buildings throughout tlio country are guarded day and night to prevent Suffragette outrages. All those arrested in the recent raid on tlio Maida Vale. headquarters of tlio SulFragottes have been committed for trial , except a girl named Bmmolino Hall, f The I police raided the Suffragettes' new headquarters at Totliill Street, Westminster, and seized 'many documents. Ivy Bon lias been sentenced to six mouths imprisonment for the Dore Gallery outrages. Bertlia Ilyland lias been arrested for slashing with a chopper Rflmney's "Portrait of a Boy" at the Art Gallery at Birmingham. • (Roc. •'Juno 10, 5.30 a.m.) London, June 9. A Suffragette was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment in connection with tho recent raid on Westminster Abbey. She left tlio court shouting: "We have no King, but, thank God, wc have Mrs. Pankhurst." (Rec. Juno 10, 5.25 p.m.) London, June 9. At a Sulfragette open air meeting at Ilford, the speakers were pelted with tomatoes and other missiles. They escaped to tlio residenco of a local* Sufragist leader, but tlio crowd smashed tho Windows of tlio house with stones.