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Show SUFFRAGETTES NOT UNDULY PUNISHED LONDON. April 11. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing that militant suffrngottes seldom servo moro than a few days of thoir sentences before being released as a result re-sult of hunger and thirst strikes, tho officials of tho homo ofllco aro thoroughly thor-oughly satisfied with tho working of tho "oat and mouso" act. ThiB was designed to deal with theso hunger strikers, and under it prisoners can be released temporarily, but in the end tbey must servo their full term of imprisonment. im-prisonment. Almost every Buffragetto who goeH to prison goes on hungor atriko and ia speedily roloasod, for tho government govern-ment la determined that the womon shall not win sympathy through ono or their number dying in jail. As soon, theroforo, as tho prison doctor notices that a woman is woakoning under abstention ab-stention from food and drink ho ordors her reloaso, and she remains out until aho ngain shows Bigns of resuming resum-ing her agitation. According to the official roturns moat of the women do not resumo their activity. Thoy either leayo tho country or sottlo down quietly quiet-ly iu which caBO thoy are not moleatod. |