THE SUFFRAGETTES.
CHARGES AGAINST THE POLICE. (Br Eleotbic Telegbaph-Copxbiqbt.) (Peb Pbeßs Association.) LONDON, Feb. 24. The Women's Parliamentary Suffrage Committee will ask Mr Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, for a public inquiry into the way in which the police acteu towards suffragettes during the period from the 18th to the "23rd November. , The Committee alleges, that the police interpreted the or4er not to make arrests as a license to do as they pleased. Onlookers state that women were struck with fists, their' arms twieted, and thumbs bent back, their breasts crushed, and their skirts raised, and that other indecencies were committed by the police.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9451, 25 February 1911, Page 3
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103THE SUFFRAGETTES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9451, 25 February 1911, Page 3
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