VOTES FOR WOMEN
POLICE (TIARGKD WITH BRUTALITY.
By Cable —Press Association —Copyright, London, March 24.
The Women's iSocial and Political Union, at a crowded meeting in the Albert Hall, subscribed £OOOO to the funds.
Miss Yida Goldstein, an Australian, expressed sympathy with the militant policy.
Lord Robert Cecil and Messrs. Griffiths and J. T. Ellis, M's.P., in a letter to The Times, states that they have examined a hundred statements by witnesses, and have found a clear case for a searching enquiry into the conduct of the police towards the suffragettes on November 18.
Several suffragettes were kicked on the bodies and limbs, and showed signs afterwards; other? were struck in the face and beaten. Generally the women suffered every species of violence, including indignitio of a very gross kind.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 262, 27 March 1911, Page 5
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130VOTES FOR WOMEN Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 262, 27 March 1911, Page 5
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