WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS.
AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. DEMONSTRATION AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. SKIRMISHES WITH THE POLICE. FIFTY-SIX WOMEN ARRESTED. Received February 14, 10.34 p.m. LONDON, February 14. A great women's convention, held at oaxton Hall, Westminster, expressed profound indignation at there being no allusion in the King's Speech to women's suffrage, and demanded the House of Commons to give precedence to the question. Eight hundred suffragettes, headed by Mrs Despard, marched to the House of Commons to present the resolution to Sir Henry CampbellBannerman, singing "Glory Hallelujah !" The police ti'U'd to disperse the procession at Westminster Abbey, but tho bulk of the suffragettes contrive-! to reach the entrance of Parliament House, and clamoursly demanded to see Sir Henry CampbellBannerman. After much uproar and many skirmishes with the police, fifty-six women were arrested. A dozen women forced an entrance into the central lobby, but were carried out, despite 1, a fierce resistance. During the struggle outside the mount 3d police nearly I'ode down several.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 15 February 1907, Page 5
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162WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 15 February 1907, Page 5
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