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WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN BERLIN.

Systematic preparations are be

TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1929.

WOMEN IN FRONT IN

MINE RIOTS.

"AN OLD TACTIC," SAYS

SUPERINTENDENT. ·

Stories as to the part played by

ing made in Berlin for the recap-women during the recent dis- tion of the General Meeting of the tubances at Nine Mile Point Col- International League for Women's eight miners summoned for riot- Hery, Ynyɛddu, were told when Suffrage which will be held there Ing appeared before the magis In June. The preparations, are trates at Blackwood (Mon.) Polico being made externally and in- Court. ternally—a reception organization is being set on fool and at the same time efforts are being made to influence the general feeling in favour of the foreign guests and of the ideas which they bring with thent.

It is obvious that tho ideas and

The small court was crowded with minera and their wives.

It was stated that previous to: the disturbances the colliery had been closed, and in February, when the mine was to be reopened, arrangements were made to en-

On February 6, when the police were escorting the local colliera to their home, thero was

a dig- turbance which ended in a baton charge..

"We have the names of a largo

lds of activity which the In-gage men who were not necessari- ternational League for Women'sy members of the Miners' Federa- Suffrage advocates could be sub- tlon. stantially promoted in Germany. the country which has so far sent the largest number of women delegates to her parliaments out of the forty-five nationa which belong to the International League. There are already many others, besides Germany, among them who have number of other men," said Mr. Introduced women's suffrage, in. S. Lyne, who prosecuted, "but part indeed at a much earlier date, we have endeavoured to bring before you those whom we think The national women's leagues in were prominent. all those States in which the battlo for female suffrage has alrendy been won, are, notwithstanding this, still in existence and call themselves "The League of Women Voters," "The Women Citizen Union," "The Union for Female Citizenship" etc. They ender vour to represent women's interests Impartially in face of the legisla ture and to educate the women outside the parties for their new responsibilitics as citizens. Thus at such an international congress the experience of those countries in which women members of parliament are already at work fs brought into connexion with the efforts of those where the fight for the right to vote is still

"It will strike you that no wo- men are brought here. I am sorry to say that women were participa tors, as in most other riota; but ur experience is that women are brought up and found guilty they are bound over."

"Nice Names From Ladies," Describing the rioting, Superin- tendent Spendlove said: "As 1 got into the crowd stones coming from all directions, and I had great difficulty in getting through, especially past the WO-

men.

were

by stones. I myself was

"Many of the police were strucks #truck with a big stone on the thigh. in progress. This is a very Two police officers have since fruitful connexion. For, whether been under the doctor, and one is the wonten have the

to vote or not, they are interest-till on the sick list.""

Mr. Ellis Lloyd (for the de- fence): Those were probably vigorous compliments.

Asked if the women or any in ed in every case in laws which regulate their walk in fe the crowd obstructed him, he said, and their work while the general "No, I got some nice names from consultation about questions of the ladies." family rights, the protection of the working wonen, her position in communal administration and In that of justice and other! subjects is of benefit to the women who already collaborate in the legislation as well as those who are thereby given an oppor- tunity of learning from thair more experienced sistern how these interests can be realized by legislation.

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Superintendent Spendlove: It is a matter of opinion. I took no notice of them.

"Comic Opera Charge."

Mr. Ellis Lloyd: You would not expect women to be in "a roltous crowd ?"

Superintendent Spendlove: Yes. Why 7-It is an old tactic to put | the woman in front. It hampers

img of all international women's the police. work is an international under-

Superintendent Spendlove add- standing and the promotion of ed that the women were in front peace, In the International of men who were throwing stones. League for Women's Suffrage,

which in general also includes. Superintendent Spendlove salð the politically advanced women that he did not suggest that there of the different countries, this was deliberate formation in the aim has always been kept in the crowd. It was always from the foreground, it may almost be outskirts of a crowd that stones Bald as an essential part of its cume.

programme. Its former important P. C. Mullen, în cross-examina- leader, Mrs. Chanman Catt, tion, denied Mr. Ells Lloyd's sug- devoted her life particularly to the gestion that the baton charge was furtherance of peace not only dur- sort of comic opera charge." ing her term of office but also after her retirement and the pesent chairwoman Mrs. Corbett Ashby,

the same spirit.

Asked if he held that it was a

custom to put women in front of

conducts the League in absolutely the crowd, P. C. Mullen said. "I have seen it done at New Trede- gar and Abertillery on two or The Berlin Congress will three occasions." culminate in a demonstration in favour of peace. In addition to Mr. Ellis Lloyd: Women are this committees and meetings of usually the most curious part of delegates will deal with individual a crowd; but do you suggest that questions of international women's minera in the Welsh mining dis- work, which are to the fore for the tricts deliberately put their wo- moment, such as the question of men in the front rank?-I cannot nationality of 1 womun who say that, but I have seen women murries a foreigner the question take a prominent part. of the international protection of The hearing was adjourned.

female workers the prevention of

child marriages, the rising of the

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age of consent for girls, etc. addition to the discussion of such

questions of A directly interna-

LETTER GOLF.

tional character, the meetings It isn't a bit hard to get a serve for an exchange of experi- SHARE of any kind of STOCK ences relative to such questions you want-if you are satisfied as are subject to the legislation of with letter golf par four.

the individual countries, such as

the marriage laws, with regard to which women are struggling to obtain an equal and common, advance.

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As far as is known at present great interest ly displayed by the outside world in the visit of this Congress to Germany. In fact hopes have been given of a strong delegation from Australia, „K may thus be expected that the in- ternational work of the Congress will harmonize with the spirit in which, it will be received in 1-The Idea of letter golf is to Germany and that a fresh Impulso change one word to another and will be given by the Congress to do it in par, a given number of international understanding and strokes. Thus to change COW to HEN, in three strokes, COW, HOW HEW HEN.

peace,

2-You can change only one letter at a time.

3-You must have a completa.

Playing in the final of the Army Football Cup at Aldershot during the Easter holidays, the 1st Battalion word, of common usage, for each K. O. S. B. beat the Warwick Regi- jump. Slang words and abbrevia- ment, thus bringing them the first tions don't count

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