GUARDING THE HOUSE.
AGAINST SUTFKAGETTE BXTSH. 5000 FOIICE ON DUTY. (•Received 8.25 a.m.) LONDON, October 12. A body of five thousand police, assisted by two hundred mounted police, will guand the precincts of Parliament on Tuesday, when the House re-assembles for the autumn session, to prevent the Women's Social Political Union rushing •the House as they have threatened t 0 do, asking the public to assist them. The Women's Freedom League attempted before sunrise to placard the doora of Cabinet Ministers' residences, the House of Commons, Government offices, and Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square trith-a proclamation claiming the franchise, BEUT TURNS TTTBTIiE. (Eeceived 9-40 ajn.) MELBOURNE, this day. Sir Tios. Bent, Premier of Victoria, addressing a public meeting last nigh* l , announced that he had turned turtle on the women's franchisa question, and intended to introduce a measure to extend the franchise to women. He hoped that women would hare the franchise within a year.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 245, 13 October 1908, Page 5
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