THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 257, 20 March 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

DEBATE IX THE HOUSE. FANATICAL WOMEN By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received li), H „.,„, London, March 19. In the House of Commons, cm the discussion of the Home Office vote, Mr. McKeiina's ineptitude in dealing with the suflragettes was sevcraly criticised. Lord Robert Cecil advocated their deportation; otherwise Lynch law was inevitable* Forcible feeding was futile and disgusting. Jf the Government was unable to solve the promlcm it must resign.

Mr. McKenna denied that the law had been broken down. Of sixty-six suffragettes convicted since the' New Year thirty-seven bad served their sentences' and twenty-one were still in prison.' Eight suffered from diseases preventing forcible feeding. The fanatical elmrac" ter of the women must be remembered Soma pretended to take food, but surreptitiously starved, hoping to die. One sponged herself and lay without the bedclothes for a whole cold night. Some refused water in addition to food. If one were allowed to die seores would follow. These fanatics no more feared death than the savage followers of the Mahdi. The Home Office proposed to ask- for power to release hunger strikers.