WOMEN'S FRANCHISE
RAID ON ST. STEPHEN'S.
NEWSPAPER CONDEMNATION
"VIOLENT AND VULGAR
METHODS."
United Press Association-By Electric Telograpb Copyright, Received July 1, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, June 30.
Three thousand police were on duty at Westminster, yesterday, to cope with the suffragettes.
A constable's horse was stabbed during the demonstration,
The newspapers censure the suffragists vulgar and violent methods.
The "Standard" urges Mr Asquith and Mr Balfour, the leaders of both sides of the House, to make it clear that the question of women's suffrage will not be considered as long as such methods continue. CASES ADJOURNED. Received July 1, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, July 1. The hearing of the cases against the suffragettes implicated in the Westminster raid, including Mr 3 Saul Solomon, wife of a former Cape Premier, were adjourned to enable the Magistrate to consider the question raißed relating to the right to petition Parliament.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9532, 2 July 1909, Page 5
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145WOMEN'S FRANCHISE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9532, 2 July 1909, Page 5
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