WOMEN'S VOTES.
MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES A BIG BATCH SENTENCED TO HARD LABOUR. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, March 10. Seventy more suffragettes, including Dr. Ethel Smyth, musical composer, have been sentenced, (many to two months' hard labour), for window smashing. Lord Haldane, speaking at a- women's suffrage meeting at Oxford, said that because a few misguided people showed devotion and courage similar to that °f the Dervishes' in the desert, there was no need for the believers in suffrage to refrain from expressing their conviction. Such incidents occurred in the history of all great causes. He would strongly oppose submitting the question to a referendum. The Conciliation Bill was the only practical measure before Parliament. Christobel Pankhurst has issued a manifesto for distribution in the street, explaining that the purpose of the militancy is to create an intolerable situation for public and Government. TURNING THE TABLES. (Received 8.55 a.m.) LONDON. March 10. Two suffragettes at 'Catford were mobbed and ( pelte<J. with eggs and other missiles.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 11 March 1912, Page 5
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166WOMEN'S VOTES. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 11 March 1912, Page 5
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