WOMEN'S FRANCHISE.
DETERMINED SUFFRAGETTES. RAID ON THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. FIFTY ARRESTS MADE. Received February 12, 11.42 p.m. LONDON, February 12. There were some exciting scenes yesterday in connection with the women's franchise movement. At Caxton Hall a meeting of suffragettes from all parts of England was lield. Mrs Patrick Lawrence, who has taken a leading part in the movement, presided, and she was supported by Misses Pan Is hurst and Kennedy, also prominent suffragettes. It was resolved to demand the passing immediately of a measure granting the franchise to women. A deputation was appointed to wait on the Prime Minister. Sir Henry CampbellBannerman, in reference to the matter.
Meanwhile a previously arranged raid on the House of Commons was developing. A van stopped at the entance of Saint Stephens. Its back doors swung optm. and thirty suffragettes emerged. They endeavoured to stQrm an entrance, but the police arrested twenty, and the rest were repulsed. A second van load met the same fate.
The Caxton Hall contingents then arrived in quick succession with the intention of compelling* the police to arrest 150 of them, but lack of spirit on the pr.rt of the militants and the determination uf the police to effect only necessary arrests, defeated the scheme.
Fifty suffragettes were in all arrested.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9054, 13 February 1908, Page 5
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214WOMEN'S FRANCHISE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9054, 13 February 1908, Page 5
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