A TRUCE CALLED.
NOW AWAITING PREMIER'S PLEDGES. (Rec. March G, 9.50 p.m.) London, March 6. Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence and Miss Christabel I'ankhurst havo been arrested on a charge of conspiring to incite persons to damage property. Tho police have removed documents from the- Women's Social and Political Union's offices. Owing to tho recent Suffragette outbreaks, tho State Apartments at Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, and Kow Palace, Windsor Castle has also been closed to the public. Seventeen Suffragettes have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour. Tho Women's Freedom League has issued a manifesto signed by Mrs. Despsrd and others, announcing a truce, in order to allow of the Premier giving pledges for the passage of a Woman Suffrage Bill.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1382, 7 March 1912, Page 5
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122A TRUCE CALLED. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1382, 7 March 1912, Page 5
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