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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 1, 24 December 1912, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES. YULETIDE LETTERS DESTROYED (Received 10.50 a.m.) London, December 23. Suffragettes damaged tiie contents of the pillar-boxes from West End to Lewisham, spoiling quantities of Yuletide letters and postcards. “WHY WE WANT THE VOTE.” CONTRAST IN SENTENCES. (Independent Cable Association.) London, December 15. In a scathing editorial article in the official journal of the suffragettes, Mrs Panl diurst denounces the passing of the sentence of two months’ imprisonment on Elsie Howey, who was I convicted of raising false fire‘alarms. “There is a symbolic fitness about this new scheme of ringing fire alarms,” writes Mrs Pankhurst. “It is arousing the public, which is just what we want to do. The sacraficej of hundreds of women and girls annually in the white slave traffic, sweat shops, and kindred evils is the cause of our agitation. We want the vote in order to remedy those conditions. “In striking contrast to the maximum sentence of two months passed on Elsie Howey for the ringing oi alarms is the case of a man at Aberdeen who was sentenced to fifteen days’ imprisonment for assaulting an eight-year-old girl.” Regent Cigarettes do not dry or burn the palate. Smoke them and shave in the Great Free Gift Scheme. Full particulars from all tobacconists. Friday, December 13th, will be noted in Stratford as the commencing day of James’s Great Xmas Carnival. Charles E. James. s