The Suffragettes.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 17, 4 March 1913, Page 5

The Suffragettes.

MRS PANKHURST’S SENTENCE. INTENTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT London, Feb. 28. Mr McKenna, Home Secretary, has remitted hard labour in the case of Sylvia Fankhurst, Mr George Lansbnry’s son and daughter are now in the second division. Mr Herbert Samuel, PostmasterGeneral, speaking at Buckingham, said that the Government would introduce a one man one vote Bill early next session owing to the action of suffragettes. If, at the present juncture, Parliament passed women’s suffrage, the country would profoundly disapprove of i(. MISS LENTON RELEASED. MORE WIRE-GUTTING. London, Feb. 28. - Suffragettes damaged the Dover gulf links, raided pillar boxes at Dover, and smashed the windows of the Newcastle Labour Exchange. Suffragettes cut. a railway signal wire at Nantyderry. The Home Office explains that the prison doctor reported that Lenton had collapsed, and was in imminent danger of death. SUFFRAGETTE HUMOUR THE POLICE HOAXED. London, March 2. The police at Pont-y-pool received an apparently official order to mobilise the Territorials on a war basis. They exhibited placards and communicated with a number of Territorials before it was discovered that the order was a suffragette hoax.