THE SUFFRAGETTES.
ACTIVITY AT THE ELECTIONS. FORCIBLE FEEDING TEST. By Teleeraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 17, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, 16th January. The Suffragettes were active in all the constituencies during Saturday's polling. They stood outside the polling-booths and urged every elector to keep the Liberal candidate out, or to write across his voting paper "Votes for Women." Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, speaking at Dundee, incidentally stated that Mr. Gladstone had tried the prison methods of forcible feeding with whole meal to test the suffragette grievance, and had found that so little inconvenience was caused that tho&o unr der treatment talked throughout the operation.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 13, 17 January 1910, Page 7
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