SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 70, 28 July 1913, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTES.

"REASON, NOT FORGE."

A STRIKING DISPLAY

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, July 27.

Pilgrimages of non-militant suffra gettists from the North, South, Eat; and West of England have arrived ii London. As the pilgrims marches they enrolled supporters and collecte; £7BOO. The four processions, number ing over 50,000, entered Hyde Park oi Saturday with banners inscribed win the words "Reason, Not Force." A monster demonstration was hel< and resolutions carried from twent; platforms demanding the suffrage.

MRS PANKHURST IMPROVING

London, July 27. It is reported that Mrs Pankhurst condition is much improved.

HYPOTHEOSIS OE WOMANLINESS Mrs Pankhurst, the leader of til militant suffragettes in England, i certain to win in her present I

fight against the law. At least, MiHodge, the Australian suffragist, say: so. The suffragettes, she told a Sydney audience the other day, have dubbed the latest action of the authorities in temporarily releasing from prison suffragettes who have made themselves ill by hunger striking as the "Cat and Mouse Bill" ; and her argument h that there are only two alternatives. "If Mrs Pankhurst dies," said Mis: Hodge, "the whole of nEngland will be up in arms. If she lives, Mr M'Kenna will have to abandon his 'Cat and Mouse Bill,' because the public will never see Mrs Pankhurst reduced to starvation point for a fourth time. going out to regain her strength, and brought back to prison for fi fifth time. So that in any case the victory is certain, but Mrs Pankhurst takes'all the risks." Her conduct. Miss Hodge described as the apotheosis of womanliness.