THE SUFFRAGETTES
STRANGE MANXIOK OF IMiOT EST. (By Telegraph. —Press Association,— Copyright). I.OX DON, 11. Yesterday's stiff rageUcs ware .sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment. in default of sureties, and two others to a month in default of paying a lino lor smashing the Moine Ofliee windows. As a protest against yesterday's arrests a great stream of vehicles is deliverin'! at the suffragettes’ headquarters a variety of goods, from coal to ginger beer. luo hoax is a greater annoyance to tradesmen titan to the suffragettes. I STILL AC!G R ESSIVIT. LONDON, March 12. Received March 12. I-.- 11 a.m. Tite suffragettes have victimised a large number of public and professional men throughout the country by sending a leaflet in tin envelope containing a halfpenny, whereupon the Post-olfice in each instance surtaxed the recipient sixpence for sending tin unregistered letter containing coin through the post. Uproarious scenes occurred at Miss Kinney’s meeting at Nottingham. Uireworks' and detonators were discharged, banners destroyed and windows smashed.
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Southland Times, Issue 17293, 13 March 1913, Page 5
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162THE SUFFRAGETTES Southland Times, Issue 17293, 13 March 1913, Page 5
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