"SQUEEZE MR. ASQUITH."

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 140, 15 June 1908, Page 5

"SQUEEZE MR. ASQUITH."

ADVICE TO THE SUFFRAGETTES DEMONSTRATION BY EDUCATED WOMEN. "TRUST THE WOMEN." [press association.] (Received June 15, 1.16 a.m.) LONDON, June 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 the franchise. The different parties carried appropriate banners and bannerettes, and included shorthand writers,, typists, authors, artists, musicians, politicians, nurses, graduates and undergraduates (wearing caps and gown's), and also a party of Colonials beneath a, banner inscribed "Trust .the women, mother, as I have done." Lady Russell and Mesdames Alfred Lyttelton and Pemher Reeves, accompanied by largo crowds, watched in the vicinity of the Albert Hail. • Lady Henry Somerset deprecated the more militant methods of agita-, fcion.' •■ ' ■-■■•■■■ ■ ~l\ '' ■' •■'-■"' .' Lady Frances Balfour cUsclare^d that though Mr Asquith was less favour- • able than, Sir Henry Campbellrßannerman, he could be squeezed. Let the women continue the peaceful, process of squeezing.