WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
• A DEPUTATION,SENT EMPTY AWAY. Br TELIIOKiVrn—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrrniGHT. I (Rcc. Jan. 31, 9.30 pmi.) v London, Januaryt3l. : Mr. Asquitli, Chancellor of the Exchequer, informed a deputation of the' National Union pf Women and Suffrage Societies, headed by Mrs: Henry Fawcott and Lady l''rancis Balfour, ,that;'tlio..qu<istipn of 'women's 'suffrage .Vas. not prominently before the. electorate. at tho hist elections.;. • i. ; ' ' The Government, .lie added, were unable tc , sacrifice any ; 'urgent measures that'luid been entrusted to thom, for. the purpose of initia- ' ting- .such ', great . .change. vl . '4tg ' initiation :;ii this Parliament would be unjustified,' even il the Cabinet was unanimous oil the question iwhich it was not. : SENT TO GAOL. (Rec.' Jan.. 31,; 4.23 p.m.) . ' i -Londonj 'January d(3. , • demonstration beforo 9-a',m. -to-day.,.outside', thot houses :ol ■ Messrs. Haldane, Sinclair, Harcourt,.Burns and. Birrejl, and S]r Edward Grey.! Tho suf- .. fragettes .'expressed, .extreme.- -disgust that women's, suffrage was not mentioned in-the ; King's SpeGcli. ■ - Seven arrests were made, and . four wore .= sentenced to sis' weeks! imprisonment..; ■'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 110, 1 February 1908, Page 5
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163WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 110, 1 February 1908, Page 5
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