STRATEGY FAILS
FLAPPERS AT THE PALACE. RUSE QUIETLY BLOCKED. WATCHFUL POLICE ON GUARD. 8T CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 12.40 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Feb. 7. Four advance guards of flappers’ vote battalions had a quiet passage to No. 10 Downing Street, where they delivered copies' of a petition praying that the Bill to extend women’s franchise bo taken as the first measure of the present session, but they found the approach to Buckingham Palace entirely different. “We would like to deliver a letter for the King,’’ said the leader, but the policeman at the main gate was courteously adamant, even, after half an hour’s cajoling. Then their maidenly strategy failed badly. Miss Woodman re-engaged the constable in earnest arguments as a barrage for Miss CouttsTrotter to storm the Privy Purse door. Another constable appeared from nowhere, slammed the door and gathered the struggling Miss Coutts-Trotter. and gallantly deposited her on the street. The women then held a council and decided to effect delivery in a more prosaic way bv messenger. —A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 February 1928, Page 9
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172STRATEGY FAILS Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 February 1928, Page 9
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