WILD WOMEN.
THE BURNS COTTAGE AFFAIR. . A WRESTLING WOMAN. Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, July 9. The woman Janet Mitchell, who was arrested at Burns's birthplace, was dressed as a man. The night watchman secured her after a violent struggle, during which, the other woman escaped. The bombs which were found w consisted of fifteen-incTi biscuit tins, each containing eight pounds of blasting powder and twenty-foot fuses. Throughout tlie night the villagers of Alloway searched for the woman, who fled on a bicycle. FORCIBLE FEEDING. ALTERNATIVE ASKED FOR. Mr Reginald McKenna. Secretary for Home Affairs, replying to seventy doctors' protest against forcible feeding, invited them to suggest alternative means of saving the lives of incendiaries who persistently starve themselves lut do not deserve to be released. A NEW SOCIETY. LONDON, July 9. A meeting was held in Westmihstelr Palace Hotel to inaugurate an imperial constitutional suffrage society, called the Women's Suffrage Union of the British Dominions.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15395, 11 July 1914, Page 9
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156WILD WOMEN. Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15395, 11 July 1914, Page 9
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