WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
SUFFRAGETTES BEFORE THE COURT. MEMBERS OF THE MINISTRY IN THE WITNESS BOX. Received 22, 11.30 p.m. London, October 22. The hearing of the cases against the suffragette's was continued at Bow Street Court to-day. Christabel Pankhurst elicited from Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of tieExchequer, that he was present at the Trafalgar Square meeting on the 11th inst. Mr. Lloyd-George, in his evidence, said he considered the demonstrations iwere formidable, but thought the suffragists' appeal to the public to rush the House of Commons was very serious. Mr. Heitbert Gladstone, Secretary for Home Affairs, was examined. He thought rushing the House of Commons meant the employment of force. The result of the suffragist demonstration against the House of Commons was 37 arrests and 40 watches and purses Defendants insisted that Liberal statesmen had encouraged the suffragists to adopt the line of action they had followed. The hearing was further adjourned.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 257, 23 October 1908, Page 3
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150WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 257, 23 October 1908, Page 3
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