The Suffragettes.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 83, 8 December 1913, Page 5

The Suffragettes.

AT REAL MILITANCY.

MRS PANKHURST. [nsr Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times— Sydney Sun Speoial Cables. London, December G. .Mrs Pankhurst is hunger-striking and thirst-striking. The members of the suffragette picket at the Exeter gaol were arrested for obstructing the prison doctor's motor car, they believing that Mrs Pankhurst was a passenger of the car. REPLY TO CAT AND MOUSE ACT. London, December 6. After the fire at Kelly House, a note-paper was found in the street, inscribed, "Reply to Cat j;no* Mouse Act." The house cost £60,000 and had been unoccupied for six months.

WORKING THE FIRE ACT.

(Received 8.10 a.m.) London, December 7. Suffragettes marked Mr Asquith's visit by burning the Ruhholme exhibition hall, south Manchester. I'he damage amounted to £12,000. They also fired the Liverpool Exhibition ind damaged the scenic railway, and attempted to burn the grandstand on the Aintree racecourse. FORCIBLE FEEDING PROTEST. (Received 9.0 a.m.: London, December 7.

•The Bishop of Kensington presided it a clergymen's demonstration at the Queen's Hall against forcible feeding. The meeting was largely attended. A suffragette broke into shouts of abuse and interruptions when the "hairman reproved militants for burning and wrecking property and brawling in churches. A resolution was passed that forcible feeding was wanton torture, ineffectual in preserving health, and a method unworthy of a Christian community.

MRS PANKHUR3T RELEASED

(Received 1.25 p.m.)

London, December 7

.Mrs Pankhurst Mas released tonight. It was impossible to forcibly fed her owing to the state of her heart.

A great meeting of suffragettes in London wildly cheered her release.