ADVICE TO WOMEN.
-—;■ it , " CONTINDE SQUEEZING." ■ SUFFRAGISTS' PEACEFUL METHOD. ; A STRANGE PROCESSION. RV TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYIUOnt. (Reo. June 15, 1.6 a.m.) : London, Juno ,14. Ten, thousand women suffragists marched from the London Embankment, to the Albert Hall. With the object of convincing Mr, Asquith that educated women demand tho franchise, there were-parties.carrying appropriate banners and bannerettes, included in which were shorthand Writers, typists, authors, artists, musicians, politicians,'nurses, graduates, and undergraduates, wearing caps and gowns; also a party of colonials beneath a banner inscribed: "Trust , tho women, Mother, as I hare done." Lady Russell, Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton, and Mrs. W. Pember Reoves accompanied 1 tho procession.
Large crowds watched'tho proceedings.-in the vicinity of'tho Albert Hall. Lady Henry Somerset, in an address, deprecated the more militant methods. L'ady Frances'Balfoiir'declared that though-v-Mr. Asquith was less favourable to womon's suffrage than was tho late Sir Henry Gampbell-Bannerman,- ho could be squeezed. Let women continue the peaceful process of .squeezing. u .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 224, 15 June 1908, Page 7
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156ADVICE TO WOMEN. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 224, 15 June 1908, Page 7
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