LONDON ALREADY CONVINCED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9122, 23 June 1908, Page 5

LONDON ALREADY CONVINCED.

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GREAT SUFRAGETTE DEMONSTRATION. PROCESSIONS TO HYDE PARK. DETERMINED DEMAND FOR THE VOTE. HOOLIGANS AND HORSEPLAY. Received June 22, 10.53 p.m. LONDON, June 22. The advocates of women's suffrage are leaving no stone unturned to bring their agitation prominently before the public eye. At every favourable opportunity demonstrations are held and addresses are given in various parts of the city by suffragettes. On Saturday week ten thousand women suffragists marched from the Thames Embankment to Albert Park, with the object of convincing Mr H. H. Asquith, the British Prime Minister, that educated women demand the franchise. This demonstration was eclipsed on Sunday afternoon, when no less than sever processions entered Hyde Park. The "Daily Mail" states that the processiunists numbered 9,670, but the "Daily News" states that the police returns show that there were 35,000. The processions were splendidly marshalled. Tnirty special trains brought many suffragists from the provinces. Mrs Pember Reeves, wife of the High Commissioner for New Zealand, was a banner-bearer. The spectators in the Park numbered at least 250,000. Some accounts give the number as much larger. The suffragist leaders were dressed in white, and occupied twenty platforms. The crowds generally were good humoured, though there was a considerable body of dissentients at some platforms, especially at the platform from which Mrs Pankhurst was speaking. The suffragists here were greatly disturbed by hooligans, whose rushes and horse-play caused many ladies to faint. , Six thousand police wer present. A resolution demanding that women be given a vote was carried simultaneously amid great cheering. The suffragists declare that the demonstration was a great success. Mrs Pankhurst claims that London is already convinced. "The Times," commenting on the demonstration, advises the other sido to demonstrate also.