ASQUITH HOWLED DOWN.
BY HYSTERICAL SUFFRAGETTES. CHAINS AND THE GAG. LONDON, November 30. An attempt by the Prime Minister, • Mr. Asquith, to speak at the City Temple in connection with the 21st anniversary of the Mansfield House settlement at Canning Town, led to extraordinary scenes created by suffragettes. Hysterical females shouted, "Votes for women," and flung an india-rubber ball, wrapped in paper, at Mr. Asquith. Another suffragette chained herself tc a certain pillar and yelled war cries until she was gagged." The stewards ejected the disturbers as fast as possible. For 10 minutes Mr. Asquith tried to secure a hearing. He then quitted the hall. UNIONIST PROPOSAL. LEAVE IT TO REFERENDUM. (Received 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 30. M>. Austin Chamberlain and Mr. F. E. Smith recommend the Unionists to unite in a policy of opposing women's suffrage and simultaneously advocating a decision by means of the referendum. STUDENTS AND THE SUFFRAGE. (Received 11.5 ajn.) NEW YORrx, November 30. The refusal of the Harvard University Corporation to allow Mrs. Pankhurst, the noted English suffragette, to addlress the students aroused the students to form a Female Suffrage Association.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 286, 1 December 1911, Page 5
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