THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13359, 7 March 1912, Page 3

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

SEVERE SENTENCES IMPOSED

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„. London, March 5. Iho magistrates are sentencing the suliragettes who broke windows, to hard labour, including Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, of'Harley street. Tho sentences were received with applause in court.

The "Daily News," hitherto a supporter of the suffragettes, says that the Government cannot longer permit society to be disorganised by a fow outlaws who have declared war on social order. Recent events have destroyed the chances of the cause in Parliament where the anti-suffragettes aro in the ascendant.

Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment and many others to two months.