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Show uu MILITANTS ARE IN JAIL Refuse to Pay Fine But Prepare to Start a "Hunger Strike" London. Jan 29. "General" Mrc Drnmmond and thirt other militant suffragettes will spend the next fourteen four-teen da;' s In jail as the result of their determination to force Daid Llovd Ceorge chancellor of the exchequer, to receive them in the house of commons com-mons last evening. All the prisoners declared after ithe were sentenced today that the:, would start a 'hunger strike." The accused women were brought up at Dow street police court before Robert Rob-ert Marsham, police magistrate Mrs. Drummond complained during the hearings that the police had handled her roughlv when she was arrested. She declared a patrolman had thrown her in the mud It is now war to the knife, ' she told the magistrate, and continued: 'You and .Air. Llod George hae a lot of trouble ahead of you. You ! will hae to do the dirty work and you will have plenty of it " The women all refused the option of paying a tine instead of going to prison Bow sirf(i court looked like a busy railroad station when the suffragettes were arraigned Most of the women had made preparations to go to prison. They carried boxes, bags, blankets and fur-lined coats |