THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 73, 31 July 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

A SLEEP STRIKE,

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Sydney Sun Special Cable.]London, July 30.' Sylvia Pankhurst is adding a sleep strike to a hunger strike. She declared that she would walk her cell continuously.

A QUESTION OF COSTUME. New York, July 29.

A Suffragette at Chicago defied‘the oolice for arresting her for bathing in Lake Michigan without a skirt on. She declared that the law was a gross attack on women’s rights, insulting heir natural sense of decency. The n are will be' tested in the courts.

(Received 12.10 p.m.) London, July 30

Mrs Rigby was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for outrages at Liverpool Exchange and Rivington Hill.

A MALE SYMPATHISER. (Received 9.40 a.m.) London, July 30. Laushury’s appeal was dismissed. He refused to find securities and wae ordered to go to gaol.

Mr George Lansbury, formerly Labor member for Tower Hamlets, Bow and Brownley, was convicted or May sth of an offence connected with the Suffragette campaign, and was bound over to keep the peace for twelve months, himself in £IOOO and two sureties of £SOO. He declined to find sureties and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, but was allowed out ou bail pending an appeal.