WOMEN’S FRANCHISE
LONDON, August 18,
Speaking at Oxford Dr Temple, the head master of the Repton Public School, described the “Cat and Mouse” Act as
a form of torture. He would allow the militants to please themselves, after supplying them with nourishment, but he could not conceive why the State interfered to forbid their suicide. The Government, instead of recognising a man’s right to commit suicide, had passed legislation outraging human liberty. August 19-
The suffragettes set fire to a timber yard at Bedford. The outbreak was promptly extinguished A sheet of note paper found at the Bedford fire bore the following inscription : “ Our beloved leader is taking holiday. This is a message to the men of Bedford.” August 22.
The suffragettes set fire to a stockbroker’s mansion at Edinburgh, but the fire was extinguished.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 26
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