WINDOW SMASHERS.
MAGETTE RAIDS. IfCH PUT TO MANSION. WERE THE POUCE BRUTAL? By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (lleoeived March 13, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 12. Helen Crawford was sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment for smashing the army recruiting office windows af Glasgow. A mansion at Stowarton waa sot fira to by suffragettes. Both these acts wero protests againsf Mrs Pankhurst's arrest. Suffragettes deputationised the Glasgow magistrates and protested against brutal police) treatment of Mrs Pankhurst. The magistrates ordered tho chief constable to submit a report. ' Nora Smyth, a Bculptor, was fined £ls for striking a police Bergeant. on. the neck with a drumstick during tho demonstration in Bow Street.
"LET 'EM STARVE!* By Telegraph—Presg Association—Copyright, (Received March 13, 11.16 a.m.) LONDON, March 12. There is a widespread demand fo* more severity towards militants. Bom© letters are appearing in the Press suggesting that they should be allowed to starve. A magistrate commented on the anomaly of the maximum punishment of six months for 1 damaging works of art and eighteen months for smashing windows. " .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11025, 13 March 1914, Page 5
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