VOTES FOR WOMEN.
A PRIVATE ETXI.
LONDON. January 31
A conference, consisting of 50 Radical members of the House of Commons favourable to woman suffrage, and including several members of the Government, has appointed a committee to report the lines on which a private bill should be drafted to grant votes to women.
SUFFRAGETE TACTICS.
(Received S a.m.)
LONDON, January 31
A suffragette was sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard labour for smashing the windows of the Dublin C.istoms House.
Two suffragettes riding along Victoria Street. Westminster, on the top of a motor-bus. fired leaden discs from catapults and broke several windows. One of the culprits was arrested and fined. The other escaped.
LET KM GO HUNGRY,
(Received 12.35 p.m
Sir A. B. Markham. M.P.. proposes legislation to prevent suffragettes bringing the law into contempt and ridicule. He asks Mr McKenna to discontinue the forcible feeding of women sent to gaol.. and allow them to so hungry.
Many of the windows at Whitehall have been screened by wire.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 5
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