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WOMAN PACIFIST’S PROTEST BOTTLE THROWN ON FLOOR LONDON, March IS. Springing up in the public gallery in the House of Commons after Miss Ellen Wilkinson (Labour) has appealed for better conditions for women employed in offices, a young Irishwoman threw down bundles of papers on the floor of the House and screamed: “We appeal to womanhood to stop war, war, war. She also flung a bottle of smelling salts, narrowly missing Mr F. W. Pethick Lawrence (Labour) and Mr W. G. Cove (Labour). The latter picked up and pocketed the bottle, while Mr Geoffrey Lloyd (Con.) calmly continued the debate. Attendants seized the woman as she cried “ Yes. I will go out. I will appeal to the King. You are worse than ostriches. You’ve got no sense.” She was taken by the police to the detention room until the House rose.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22831, 16 March 1936, Page 9
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