In an article in the Daily Mail Lord Robert Cecil admits that the militancy of the suffragettes, which resembles the tactics of the anarchist, is difficult to deal With. He advocated empowering the courtß to deport the women to some distant island, and provide them with food and lodging. They would be given their freedom and merely he prevented from leaving. The terms of deportation should be for not less than a year. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, in describing the hunger strike, states that she walked about her cell for 28 hours consecutively, and struggled against forcible feeding until Bhe was scarcely conscious.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 555, 2 April 1913, Page 5
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102Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 555, 2 April 1913, Page 5
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