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ENTERED THE SCHOOL DEMANDING

TO DE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO CLASS. THIRTEEN OTHER GIRLS RALLIED TO

HER SIDE AND OPSTRUCTED AND UPBRAIDED THE HEADMISTRESS AND OTHER

TEACHERS. THE POLICE VERE CALLED IN.

10 WERE ARRESTED,

AND THIRTEEN OTHER GIRLS AGED BETWEEN 16 AND

WAS CHARGED WITH TRESPASSING

AND THE OTHERS WITH CPSTRUCTING THE POLICE. WHILE ON REMAND THE

CIRLS SENT LETTERS TO BCLILIOS PUPILS VILIFYING THE HEADNI STRESS

AND INCITING REBELLION. DURING THE COURT HEARING THERE WAS MUCH

MYSTERICAL SCREAMING, ABUSIVE LANGUAGE AND THE CHANTING OF

POLITICAL SLOGANS DESPITE EFFORTS OF SOME CONTRITE PARENTS TO

GUNDUE THE GIRLS, ALL 14 VERE SENTENCED TO 100 DOLLAR FINES OR ONE

GONTHO IMPRISONMENT. SIX, INCLUDING

EITHER PAID

THEIR FINES OR HAD THEIR FINES PAID FOR THEM DY THEIR PARENTS WHILE

KICHT CHOSE A PRISON SENTENCE AS AN ACT OF MARTYRDON, SOME OF THE

14 GIRLS HAVE SINCE REQUESTED ASSISTANCE IN FINDING SCHOOL PLACES

AND IT HAS SEEN POSSIBLE TO ENTER ONE IN ANOTHER SCHOOL

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