WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8270, 25 October 1906, Page 5

WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS.

ATTEMPT TO H JLD A MEETIN G POLICE DISPERSE BODYGUARD. who leave Hats, bonnets, AND HAIKPINS BEHIND. AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. HEADERS SCRATCH AND FIUKT UN'IIt OVERPOWERED. TEH ARRESTS MADE. j Reeved Ootobc? 24, 9.17 p.m. LONDON, October 24. Thirty suffragists assembled singly in tfae'lobby of tflie House of Cobdmonsand demanded to see Sir Henry Campbell-Banneirman, who declined to receive thenx They attempted to hold a meeting of iprotest roQDil Lord Iddesleigh's statue, violently insisting tbat they ware entitled to the franchise and declaring thai they would no longer bo slaves. £hey waved flags and tyanners. When tfee police interfered, the women lirtked Hands, forming a round the leaders, who Amounted a bench and oorrtanaed to 1 harrangue the crowd. Additional police wevro emnmosed, [ acdafter « struggle diaptrrsed'the body \ guard, who fled, leaving hats, bon- ! nets, and hairpins behind. | The leaders scratctwd end fought, until overpowered. | Some were oarried tot® the street ■' kicking and screaming 'bystericafly.: "Cowards! Do ywa <oall this free-; dom?" ' ■ Outside they attain horrangned «j nambea of suffragists, until the; police arrested tea on -e 'charge <tf£| using tbreateoimg language. ; Amongst those arretted are Mrs; Cobden-Sannderson, daughter of Mt Richard Oobden, iand Misses Garwj thorpe, 'Kinney, Billington, -anil Parkharst.