THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 67, 27 March 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

HUNGER STRIKERS

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London, March 20

Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, describing the hunger strikes, said the imprisoned women walked about their cells for 28 hours, and consecutively struggled against forcible feeding until they were scarcely conscious.

HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM

London, March 26. Lord Robert Cecil, in an article in the Daily Mail, admits that the anarchist form of suffragette militancy was difficult to deal with. He advocates empowering the courts to deport the women to some distant island and provide them with food and lodging and give them freedom, merely preventing them from leaving for terras not less than a year. A LOST SUBSCRIPTION AND SYMPAHTY.

Through setting fire to a pillar box recently, the suffragettes lost a donation of £SOO that was being forwarded to them by a supporter. In a letter to an Auckland resident, a wealthy Englishman tells the story as follows: “As'you may remember, I have always been a consistent supporter of the suffragettes: I sympathised with them in their struggles to such an extent that I made frequent donations to their funds. Just recently I decided to help them substantially, and making out a cheque for £SOO I posted it with other letters in an adjacent pillar box. it appears that shortly afterwards a militant suffragette came by and ignited the contents of the box. My letter was delivered considerably charred, but although the figures were destroyed, my signature was clear. Accordingly the suffragettes called on me and asked that I would fill in a new cheque. This, however, I flatly refused to do, as my sympathy had been considerably alienated, as several other important letters of mine had been destroyed. It’s wonderful how one’s opinion alters when one suffers oneself. I rather expect to hear more of this, as the ladies were considerably annoyed when I refused their request.”