"SERVE HER RIGHT."
IF A MILITANT DIED. VALUE OF LIFE OVER-ESTIMATED. DIFFERENT A CENTURY "Times,"—Sydney "Sun" Special'. Cables. (Received March 17, 9 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. Dt Mercier, in a letter to tho Press, says ho considers that tho authorities / exaggerate the outcry which would follow tho cleatli of a hunger striker. The general verdict would be; . "Serve her right." The value of life was overestimated, as much as it was underestimated a century ago, when 500 would have been simultaneously sentenced to death at Newgate. . He recommends tba.t. if tho author!- ■ ties shrink from allowing these crim- , inals to inflict death sentences upon • ; themselves they should proclaim them outlaws.
DOCTOR HORSEWHIPPED. SUFFRAGETTE KNOCKED DOWN. A: suffragette . horsewhipped Dr Devon,, Scottish Prisbn Commissioner, while entering tho Glasgow prison./Tho suffragette was knocked down/ but not • arrested. • ' , V Suffragettes sot fire to several Midland Railway carriages at King's Norton. Six . were destroyed and three K badly damaged. There has been a large increase in the number of church services interrupted -by suffragettes' prayers.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11028, 17 March 1914, Page 4
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