MILITANT METHODS.
DISTURBING A SERVICE
(Press Assn.—By Telegraph— Copyright.). LONDON, Jnly -7.' In eyidence at Sunday afternoon's service at Westminster Abbey was Mrs Dacre Fox. Stylishly dressed and supported by. another suffragette she walked down .the main aisle and commenced denouncing the torture of women. The great congregation sat silent while a detective . hurried down the aisle, placed a handkerchief over Mrs. Dacre Fox's! mouth, ahd removed her unresisting. Both women were arrested and taken to Holloway prison. * (Received July 8, 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 8. Miss Adela Pankhurst has arrived. Interviewed, she said that militancy was not ruining the cause.. There was no use trying tp. convert the people by | other means. The whole Cabinet favor giving women the vote with' the exception of Messrs Asquith and Harcourt. It was simply party reasons and the fear that women would constitute an unreckoned force at elections that kept them from giving women the vote. "There is nothing for us to do"," she added, . "but to continue the present means until they get tired! of seeing lawj and order upset, and give us the vote."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13427, 8 July 1914, Page 3
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184MILITANT METHODS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13427, 8 July 1914, Page 3
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