SUFFRAGETTE CRANKS
THE ACME OF STUPIDITY. (London ‘ Times ’ and Sydney ' Sun ’ Services.) LONDON, April 27. Thousands of idle people were amused at Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon. The suffragettes proposed to hold a meeting in boats on the Serpentine, but the authorities would not permit them. They therefore moored their boats in the middle of the Serpentine, and two suffragettes threw off their clothing and entered the water in bathing costumes. They were cheered as they swam ashore, and the boats were cut. adrift. A third suffragette arrived in a motor car in a bathing dress. She also dived into tho water. All were arrested by boaifnen, and were escorted through an immense jeering crowd to the Hyde Park police station, where they were charged with an offence against the by-laws, and were subsequently released. FURTHER WANTON DAMAGE. LONDON, April 28. (Received April 29, at 9 a.m.) The trees adjoining the Felixstowe Hotel bore suffragette inscriptions. The damage is £30,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 15479, 29 April 1914, Page 8
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