WOMEN'S FRANCHISE
ATTACK ON LORD WEARDALE
MISTAKEN FOR MR ASQUITH.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
LONDON, February 18. A suffragette who refused to givo her name has been remanded for hitting with ■a dogwhip Lord Weardale, joint president of ihe Anti-Suffragists' Society, at Euston Railway Station, in the presence of Lady Weardale and 200 people. The prisoner stated that she meant to give Lord Weardale a good thrashing. The suffragette pleaded that she mistook Lord Weardale for Mr Asquith. Bail -was refused.
ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL NEGATIVED. CAPETOWN, February 18. In the Assembly Mr Wyndham's Women's Enfranchisement Bill was negatived by 43 to 42 votes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 5
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101WOMEN'S FRANCHISE Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 5
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