THE SUFFRAGETTES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10577, 7 March 1912, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES

CABLENEWS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

ARREST OF MISS PANKHURST DOCUMENTS SEIZED. A TRUC'ECALLED. (Received Last Night, 9.50 o'clock.) LONDON, March 6. iMiiss Ghristaibol Plankhurst has been arrested on a charge of conspiring to incite to the damage of property. < The police have removed documents from the AVomen's Social and Political Union offices. Owing to the recent suffragette outirages, tho State apartments at Hampton Court, Kensington, the new Palaces, and Windsor Castle have been closed. .Seventeen suffragettes have been sentenced to imprisonment, with hard labour. Tho Women's Freedom League has issued a manifesto signed by Mrs Despard a.nd others, announcing a truce. HARD LABOUR SENTENCES. RECEIVED WITH APPLAUSE. MOVEMENT LOSING' SUPPORT. (Received March 6,. 12.30 p.m:),. /. LONDON, March 5. , The magistrates are sentencing win-dow-breakers to hard labour. Included , in those so sentenced is Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, of Hartey. Street. . Tho sentences wero received . with , applause 'm tho Count. , The Daily News, hitherto a supporter of the suffragetes, says the Government cannot longer permit society to be disorganised hy a- few outlaws who Ivavo declared war on the social order. Recent events .have destroyed their cause in Parliament, where the antisuffragists are in the ascendant. SIX WEEKS AND TWO MONTHS. (Received March 6, 2 p.m.) LONDON. Ma roll 5. Dr. Louisa Garret Anderson was sentenced to .six weeks', and many . others to two months imprisonment. ' „ i