THE SUFFRAGETTES.
FURTHER POSTAL OUTRAGES, (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, December 8. Many letters were damaged at the Fleet Street Post .Office by corrosive fluid, which was poured into pillar-box-es in the same locality. HUNGER STRIKERS RELEASED. (Received 9, 9.5 a.rn.) London, December 8. Four suffragettes at Aberdeen started a hunger strike, and broke the windows of the prison. They were released, as there were no facilities for suitably •feeding them. INTERRUPT A DEMONSTRATION (Received 9, 8.50 a.m.) London, December 8, I During a Home Rule demonstration at Dalston Theatre, Mr. Redmond was constantly interrupted by suffragettes and male sympathisers, and did not complete twenty sentences in three quarters' of an hour. Women were ejected every minute, and free fights were constantly occurring. A clergyman was thrown cut for protesting against the manner in which the stewards treated the women.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 88, 9 December 1912, Page 6
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142THE SUFFRAGETTES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 88, 9 December 1912, Page 6
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