... indications of a truce between the militant suffragettes and the Government. Out of forty-three prisoners under the Cat and Mouse Act only one is on bail, the others are enjoying the holidays or attending their ordinary work. It is also believed that ...

... It is, however, fully time that the Law was made effective in dealing with Suffragette crimes, Proceedings under the Cat and Mouse Act are now generally admitted to be simply farcical, and to do more harm than good. Sentences which it is known will be ...

... the whole position of woman in the social community, must be controlled and above all most severely punished. The cat and mouse act, is a mere farce, tending only to encourage further outrages, which the publio no longer intends to tolerate. ...

... will announce her recognition of the new Regime on Friday. . Kenny - was re-arrested—At a meeting in London on the Cat and Mouse Act there was a fierce struggle in the face of infuriated women; 8 arrests were made for obstructing the Pilice. From Dublin—The ...

... Scottish Baines and Town Councillors called on Mr. Asquith to urge thelenfranchisement of women and the repeal of the Cat and Mouse Act. The Premier refused to interview them, whereupon the Deputation, the great majority of whom were Liberals, held an ...

... A crowd of suffragettes entered Saint Stephen's Hall to present to Mr. Mac Kenna a memorial with reference to the Cat and Mouse Act. They resisted the police when trying to remove them and attempted to deliv,-r speeches. Mrs. Pethick Lawrence and ...

... chopper a foot in length and from five to six inches in breadth, Mary Richardson, a militant suffragist, out under the Cat and Mouse Act, yesterday wrecked the famous Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery. The picture, presented to the nation by subscribers ...

... follows outrage. A solution to militancy has at least been found, not the Cat and Mouse Act which has proved a hopeless failure, and caused the Law to be turned into ridicule. A short Act will meet the difficulty. Penal Servitude with its full rigours, ignoring ...

... suffragettes. He declared that to let them die, was a policy of only greater incentive to militancy. Be defended the Cat and Mouse Act and hoped, however, that the Government will have sufficient evidence to bring an action against subscribers to militants ...

... feet and shouted :— Down with the police Death to the tyrants ! Of course Miss Kenny had been released under the Cat and Mouse Act, and was liable to rearrest if she participated at a meeting of this kind. Hence her defiant words. Miss Kenny was about ...