SUFFRAGETTES' DASH.
OAR LOAD OF WOMEN ARRESTED. LONDON, Jan. 29. The suffragettes made a .bold attempt to-day to break into a Cabinet meeting ih Downing street. A motor car belonging to the Women's Social and Political " Union, with a woman chauffeur, j»nd filled with militants, dashed from Whitehall into Downing street before the line of police stationed outside Mr Asquitu's i official residence realised what was. hap-' ijening. The driver of the car was ordered to retire from the street, _but refused, whereupon the entire party of women was placed tinder arrest and t&ken to Scotland Yard. Later m the day the women were brought before the lsow Street Police Court. They refused to give their names, but all were bound ' over to be of good behavior for six jnonth|. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13298, 6 February 1914, Page 3
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130SUFFRAGETTES' DASH. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13298, 6 February 1914, Page 3
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