WOMEN’S FRANCHISE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 42, 18 February 1913, Page 3

WOMEN’S FRANCHISE.

THE VOTE IN, HUNGARY. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Buda-Pesth, February 14. Herr Lukacs, addressing the Electoral Reform Committee, said there was little justification for introducing women’s suffrage when a highly civilised country like Britain rejected it. GOLF GREENS DAMAGED. London, February 16. Suffragettes, by cutting on the turf the words: “No votes, no golf. Justice before sport,” with spades and acids, seriously damaged the golf greens at Richmond, Walton Heath, Acton, Chingford, Sandwich, Cromer, Sheringham, and Panteg. SYLVIA PANKHURST. (Received 8.55 a.m.) A friend paid Sylvia Pankhurst’s fines, and she has been released. Commenting upon the forcible feeding and bathing of suffragettes, an English writer says; “I have seen men stand by and laugh as they watched women being ill-treated. It was at a meeting of suffragettes in Hyde Park. A young girl mounted a stand and commenced to speak. Hardly had she done so when hooligans in the crowd shouted offensive remarks. Then they went further, and after throwing stone®, one of which cut her forehead and drew blood, they rushed the stand and proceeded to pull her from • it. Resisting, her clothes were being torn from her, when from the edge of. the crowd a shout was heard: ‘Como along, boys 1’ and three men pushed their way through, and throwing the assailants off, stood protectingly in front of. the stand, whilst torn and bleeding, the suffragette was taken away in a taxi. These men were Australians. Later on at a meeting in Wales, Mr Lloyd George was interrupted by a suffragette. This woman was dreadfully maltreated by the crowd. Men kicked her and struck her in the face with their fist®. At last she fell, to be inevitably trampled to death had not again ‘Colonial men’ (I quote the Daily Mail) come to the rescue. One of the arguments put forth by Englishmen against granting the suffrage to women is that it will kill chivalry in men. Well—l make no comment!”