WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8386, 22 March 1907, Page 5

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

PROCESSION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. EXTRAORDINARY SCENES. NUMEROUS ARRESTS MADE. Received March 21, 10.59 p.m. LONDON, March 21. A Women's Social Political Union meeting in Caxton Hall, including a large contingent of Lancashire cotton operatives, in shawls and clogs, condemned the Government's with regard to Mr Dickinson's Women's Suffrage Bill, and summoned Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man to legislate on the lines of his own speech. Lady Haberton volunteered to lead a deputation to hand Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman the resolution. The police broke up the procession into groups of twos and threes. Soon five hundred extra constables assembledjjat the House of Commons and had great trouble in resisting the most determined series of disorderly attempts ever made to enter the House. There were numerous skirmishes, and unavailing rushes, leading to the arrest of small batches of women. The police showed the utmost forbearance, and sought to restrict their duties to preventing anything in the nature of a combined demonstration. SEVENTY-FIVE WOMEN ARRESTED. Received March 21, 11.15 p.m. LONDON, March 20. Huge crowds were greatly amused at a would-be martyr asking to be arrested. Lady Haberton was admitted to the House of Commons, but was unable tosee Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man. Seventy-five women were arrested, and admitted to bail.