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ENQUIRY ASKED FOR
(Received February 24, 8 a.m.)
LONDON, February 23
The Women's Parliamentary Suffrage .Committee will ask -Mr Winston Churchill * Home Secretary, for a public enquiry into the way in which the police acted towards suffragettes during the period from the 18th to the 23 November.
The committee alleges that the police interpreted the order not to make arrests as a license to do as they pleased.
Onlookers state that the women were struck with fists, their arms twisted, and thumbs bent back, their breasts crushed, av\ their skirts raised, and that other indecencies were committed by the police.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10174, 25 February 1911, Page 5
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111SUFFRAGETTES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10174, 25 February 1911, Page 5
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