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FRANTIC
WOMEN.
RAID ON ROYALTY.
Suffragettes and Hard
Labour,
LONDON. Jane 38.
Miss Isabel-Irvine, a (prominent militant
member -of the suBragettes' organizations,
has been convicted of mndow-^naebing,
and sen
-
tenc^d
, t ;
to
. -1
two
_
months
^.iu.'
imprison
™t.tw>ti.
•nml ment 1 with M^h hard nO iibonr. inlYiTir.
Altoftelher 23 of the female hunger
strikers have been regarded by thV authorities
as having sofBcienfly pnmshed themselres,
and have .therefore been released
from prison. . '.. . ,
"J An exiiaordinarr. incident, was brougap
under the,close pereonal atSention of Their
Majoataes in "Wales'. After Kinjc George
lad laid the fonndation of the Welsh Na-
'tional Mnseiim. at Cardiff, and: when the
royaljnocession was fust outside Itonflaff
Cathedral, a weli-dressed feuffragette, Ellen,
CraSt. broke through the police cordon jand
oprane at the Home Secrctary (Mr.:Jlc-
Kenna^; •who was Minister in attepdance
npon tie royal party. _ v
• The woman appealed :to the Queen herself,
op behalf -off fdiow-suffra«ist£, ihat
Her 'Majesty should use her influence to
about the franchise fpr her ses. The
of tbe royal progrew was
taken <-bartEe of. but as she was
ban* removed she fiercely. struggled with
ffie Setectives-
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