VOTES FOR WOMEN.
AMERICAN HOPES BASHED. 1 , FAVOURED IN SWEDEN. (Received 9 ajni.) WASHINGTON, January 18. 'A bad blow to the women's suffrage movement has been given by a majority of the members of the House Rules Committee deciding against the creation of » special committee to deal -with the suffrage question. The suffragists had ■ luiit high hopes, on the promise of the formation of this committee. •'."-. .: STOCKHOLM, January 18. •?.--•■ . .The King of Sweden, in opening Par- ,.• lament, declared in the course of his speech that justice and the welfare of ' tte State demanded the extension of a political to women. . LONDON, January 18. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, in an address j..; at Hackney, advised her hearers not to : attend meetings unless they were armed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 16, 19 January 1914, Page 5
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