THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13455, 28 June 1912, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

ROYAL PROCESSION INTER-

RUPTED

APPEAL TO QUEEN ALEXANDRA

RELEASE OF HUNGER STRIKERS

London, June 26

When Queen Alexandra's jubilee procession reached the Stock Exchange, Ellen Craig, a well dressed Londoner, broke througfc the cordon of police, and sprang on Mr McKenna, the Minister-in-attendance, and also,, appealed to Queen Alexandra on behalf of the- suffragettes. She was arrested after a fierce struggle with detectives.

Twenty-three hunger , strikers have now been'released.*- '• .(, ' "':'

Isabel Irving ivas sentenced to two mouths' hard labour for smashing windows in the House of Commons.