THE SUFFRAGETTES.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Ft>r Press Association. LONDON, February 12. The suffragettes met in Caxton Hall from all parts of England. Mrs Patrick Lawrence presided, Misses Pankhurst and Kennedy supporting her. It was resolved to demand an immediate measure of franchise and to appoint a deputation to see Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man. Meanwhile a previously arranged raid on the House of Commons was developed. A Pantechnicon van stopped at the entrance to St. Stephen's. Its back doors swung open and thirty suffragettes emerged. They endeavoured to storm the entrance, to the buildings. The police arrested twenty and uie rest were repulsed. A second van load met the same fate; The Caxton Hall contingents then arrived in quick succession with the intention of compelling the police to arrest 150, but lack of spirit on the part of the militants and the determination of the police to effect only necessary arreste (totalling 50) defeated the scheme
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8511, 13 February 1908, Page 5
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154THE SUFFRAGETTES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8511, 13 February 1908, Page 5
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