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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3019, 16 October 1908, Page 5

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SUFFRAGETTES' CAMPAIGN. ATTEMPT TO RUSH HOUSE OF COMMONS. THIRTY-SEVEN ARRESTS MADE. Received October 15, 8.25 a.m. LONDON, October 14. The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. H. H. Asq-iith, declined to receive a suffragist deputation, and following the refusal, a series of rushes to reach the House of Commons was made by suffragettes. The attempts, however, proved ineffectual. A crowd, including many unemployed and some hooligans, tried to break through the police rordon, and some periods were injured in the crush. Admirable police arrangements rendered the demonstration an ignominious failure. Twenty-four women and thirteen men vyere arrested. "The Times" and "Daik Chronicle" declare that the suffragists are now making themselves the nucleus of mobs wherein there are dangerous elements, and in which rowdies are conspicuous. They are. according to both papers, becoming a nuisance, and their actions call for sterner treatment than heretofore. AN ANNOUNCEMENT. Received October 15, 9.55 p.m. LONDON, October 15. The Speaker of the House of Commons announced that while not excluding ladies from the inner lobby he has ordered that none shall be allowed past the doorkeepers. This will prevent access to the small side windows near the main entrance, from which ladies under the escort of a member of the House of Commons were allowed to view the sittings of the House. ARREST OF SUFFRAGETTES. Received October 15, 9 a.m. LONDON, October 14. Mrs Drummond, Mrs Pankhurst, and Mis 3 Christabel Pankhurst were arrested for ignoring summonses to appear at Bow-street Police Court on a charge of trying to provoke a breach of the peace in connection with the proposed rushing of the House of Commons. They were remanded for a week, bail being allowed. SUFFRAGETTES ELECT TO GO TO PRISON.

Received October 15, 10.15 p.m. LONDON, October 15. Several of the sufi'ragists arrested elected to pro to prison for a month instead of entering into sureties for their good behaviour for a year. Some of them secured an adjournment in order to obtain legal aid. Three men were sent to gaol for kicKing and striking the police. Others were fined or bound over to keep the peace.