THE SUFFRAGETTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16120, 8 July 1914, Page 7

THE SUFFRAGETTES

ISISHOP OF LONDON'S LETTER. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Preai A»»ooi»tion —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 6. The Bishop of London, in the course of a letter, repeats that ho lias 110 sympathy with tho militants, hiit lu>, still deplores forcible feeding, and publishes copies <»t his recent letters to the Ifome Secretary (Mr M'Kenna), in which he states tho results of his interviews with suffragettes at Hollovvay Gaol. Tho women there declared that they took nothing to prevent pain. The forcing of a tube through the nostril was more acute in its effect each tinio it was used. Its frequent and agonising withdrawal was necessary to avoid infection of the lungs. Indigestion, vomiting, and nervous prostration followed.

SCENIC IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY

TWO SOCIETY WOMEN ARRESTED

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, July 6,

(Received July 7, at 5.10 p.m.)

In evidence at Sunday afternoon's service at Westminster Abbey was>MrsDacre Fox, stylishly-dressed, and supported by another suffragette. She walked up the main aisle, and commenced denouncing the tortuTo of women. Tho great congregation sat silent, but a detective hurried up the aisle, placed a handkerchief over Mrs Dacra Fox's mouth, and removed her unresisting. • Both the women were arrested and taken to Holloway Prison.