WOMAN FIREBRAND.
DEATH OF ARCH-AGITATOR. REVOLUTION A . HOBBY. (Received 9.5 p.m.) Sun. LONDON, Feb. 7. Madame Sorgie, a Continental Syndicalist, nicknamed Madame Trouble, who was described as the most dangerous woman in Europe, died from a heart attack while undressing in a London hotel. She was visiting Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald and Mr. Lloyd George for a Belgian newspaper. She was the daughter of a French scientist, and the granddaughter of. a Russian general. • She is reported to Have declared: " I adore revolution. I have devoted my life' to the fomentation of trouble." She boasted that she had led 52 strikes. She was repeatedly imprisoned in various countries and was acquitted of a charge of having advocated the assassination of King Victor of Italy.
She marched at the head of women hunger strikers in London in 1912. She delivered a revolutionary oration at Florence, 'but during the war she turned, patriot and assisted the French and Belgian Red Cross. She always wore a red blouse with a rosette and smoked cigarettes continuously.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18629, 9 February 1924, Page 9
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