SUFFRAGISTS' DEMONSTRATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 142, 15 June 1908, Page 5

SUFFRAGISTS' DEMONSTRATION.

THE LAW-ABIDING SECTION.

TEN THOUSAND IN PROCESSION.

MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES CONDEMNED.

LONDON, June 14. Ten thousand women suffragists [marched from London Embankment to (Albert Hall yesterday, with the object of convincing the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) that educated women demand the franchise. Parties of women carrying appropriate banners and bannerettes included short-hand-writers, typists, authors, artists, musicians, nurses, graduates and undergraduates wearing caps and gowns, and there was also a party of colonials with a banner inscribed, "Trust the Women." Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton (wife of the exr Colonial Secretary) and Mrs. W. P. Reeves, accompanied by large crowds, watched the proceedings from the vicinity of Albert Hall. Lady Somerset, in the course of an address, deprecated the more militant methods that had been employed by some organisations. Lady Francis Balfour declared that though Mr. Asquith was less favourable to women's suffrage than the late Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, he could be squeezed, and she advised, "Let the women continue the peaceful process of squeezing."