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Show S SUFFRAGETTE DISTURBANCE ' IN HOUSE OE COMMONS Two Women Chain Themselves to Grill In Order to Prevent Their Hj Ejection From Building. London. Suffragette disturbances linvo driven tho government to thn mnimial courso of temporarily closing thn strangers' nnd ladles' gnllorlcs In tho Iioiiro of commons. TIiIm was nn-nounced nn-nounced by tho speaker In rosponsu to a question from Premier Asqulth nnd Mr. Balfour, tho leader of tho opposition, as parllameiil ws nil-jotirning nil-jotirning on Wednesday night. During (he evening, while tho houso wuh discussing tho licensing bill, a tcnsntlnn wa mused by the display ol n placard and sudden slirjll cries' from tho ladles' gallery, demanding votes for women, while simultaneous-' ly a bundlo of handbills fluttered down from tho strangers' gallery at fl tho opposite end of tho chamber nnd n man shouted protests against "In-Justice "In-Justice to women." Attendants hurried to the g tileries nnd tho male offendoi' was unccro-monlously unccro-monlously ejected, but from thn la-dies' la-dies' gallery sounds wero heard of a desperate struggle. Two suffragettes HH had firmly ehaliied themselves to tho grill nnd resisted for n time all olTorts tit romovnl. Tho scene war, watched with nmn.omont from the door of tho ( liouso, but llnnlly tho ttuffrngottcs wore drnggod from their posts, but only after portions of tho grill wero lemoved with thorn. |