THE SUFFRAGETTES

Southland Times, Issue 17697, 8 July 1914, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES

ANOTHER ABBEY DISTURBANCE. TWO WOMEN ARRESTED. (Times and Sydney Sun Service). LONDON, July G. Received July 7. 5.3 0 p.m. At Sunday afternoon’s service in Westminster Abbey, Mrs Dacrefox, who was stylishly dressed, supported hy another suffragette, walked up the main aisle, and commenced denouncing the torture of women. The great congregation sat silent, and a detective hurried up the aisle, placed a handkerchief over Mrs Dacrefox’s mouth and removed her without resistance. Both women were taken to Holloway Gaol. DR INGRAM’S INTERVENTION. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, July 6. The Bishop of London, in the course of a letter, repeats that he lias no sympathy with the militants, hut he still deplores forcible feeding, and publishes copies cf his recent letters to the Home Secretary, Mr McKenna, in which he states the results of his interviews with suffragettes at Holloway Gaol. The women there declared that they took nothing to prevent pain. The forcing of a tube through the nostril was more acute in its effect each time it was used. Its frequent and agonising withdrawal was necessary to avoid infection of the lungs. Indigestion, vomiting, and nervous prostration followed. THE MOVEMENT IN FRANCE. PARIS. July 6. A procession of flower-carrying women deposited their flowers at the base of the statue of Condorcet, who has been chosen as the patron of the feminist movement because h© raised his voice against social inequality. Condorcet expressed no hostility to men, and ridiculed the idea of warring with th© feminism.