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Show WOMEN HOLD k MEETING Suffragettes Relate Troubles and Shout Anathemas Against Premier London. March 17. There were I militant scenes today nt the weekly week-ly gathering of suffragettes in a London Lon-don music hall In the course of an address by Mrs Pankhurst shouts oi "Why don't you blow up Premier Aa-! Aa-! quit'u '."' nnd "Shoot him" rang throu&h j the hall. .Mrs Pankhurst referred to her ap-I ap-I preaching committal to jail on the charge of inciting malicious damage 1 and then to hr daughter's imprison- j i ment "My daughter," she said, is trying to release herself as a prisoner of war; trom t enemy and is enduring all the tortures of imprisonment con-j finement." Outburst In Hall At this juncture the hall resounded! v illi an outburst against Premier As-Qufth As-Qufth and his cabinet ministers, i The suffragette leader contiuupd to relate how her daughter Sylvia "during "dur-ing the first eleven days of her imprisonment im-prisonment was not only forcibly fed but was deprived of all books. She was in solitary confinement, and for exercise was absolutely left to her own resources while undergoing that treatment." The speaker announced that Miss Bansbury and Mrs Moore, two "mil-it;mt" "mil-it;mt" suffragettes, who went on a hunger strike iu prison, were released releas-ed today. Mrs. Pankhurst incidentally attacked attack-ed the labor party leaders She said they had professed to be in favor of the women and had received help both "personal and pecuniary," yet they had done nothing to forward the cause. |