WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS.
THE DEMONSTRATION AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Received February 15, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, February 14. The Tribune, Chronicle, and News all complain of brutality on the part of the police in connection with the women's demonstration. The mounted police are especially singled out for condemnation. The suffragettes belonged to the Women's Social Political Union, which had r not been invited to Saturday's demonstration, lest its members should alienate many opponents (sympathisers) by their extreme methods. Mrs Despard was fined 40s or twenty-one days' imprisonment. The others were fined 10s, or a week, up to 20s or a fortnight. They kll went to prison. A man was fined 2s for attempting to rescue his wife.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 16 February 1907, Page 5
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116WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 16 February 1907, Page 5
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