WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON. Received June 15, 1.16 a.m. LONDON. June 14. Ten thousand women suffragists marched from London Embankment to Albert Hall, with the object of convincing the Hon. H. H. Asquith (Premier) that educated women demand the franchise. Parties carrying appropriate banners and bannerettea included shorthand writers, typists, authors, artists, musicians, politicians, nurses, graduates, undergraduates wearing caps and gowns, and also a party of colonial?, on whose banner were inscribed the words "Trust the women, mother, as I have done." Speaking at Albert Hall Lady Henry Somerset deprecated more miHtant methods. Lady Francis Balfour declared that though Mr Asquith was le3s favourable to women's franchise than the late Sir Henry CampbellBannerrnan, he could be squeezed. "Let the women continue thy oeaoeful process of squeezing." she said.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9115, 15 June 1908, Page 5
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129WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9115, 15 June 1908, Page 5
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