... THE CAT AND MOUSE ACT With indecent haste, the Cat and Mouse fill a u, passed through all its stages in the House of Lords on Thursday in last week, tho Committee and Third Reading stages occupying exactly one minute. It received the Royal ...

... hope they will be, in saving women who can no longer be considered sane from their own madness. We believe that tho Cat-and-Mouse Act, as it is called, will be more efficacious than some of its critics suppose; and in our opinion the Government have ...

... CAT AND MISSING MICE. Scotland Yard last night issued a notice giving a description of Hugh Arthur Franklin, the hunger_ striking suffragist, who was released under the terms of the Cat and Mouse Act. Three other militants—Elsie Duval, Phyllis ...

... THE GLOBE SHUDDERS The Cat and Mouse Act is the feeble resource of a feeble Minister, but at least let it be rigorously enforced, and then perhaps the populace will be willing to wait and see if it proves effective. As things are, we are drifting ...

... compelled, because of illness, to release a tortured prisoner, could not recapture her unless she again broke the law. The Cat-and-Mouse Act has changed all that, and unless by courage and determination the Suffragettes can evade the repeated torture it contemplates ...

... THE CAT-AND-NOUSE ACT. The efficacy of the Cat-and-Mouse Act, the Government's lately enacted measure of coercion, has now been put to the test. On April 28th Mr. Hugh Franklin, who was fed by force 114 times, and who has made one of the ...

... The Highlands. Folkestone, burnt, damage estimated at £5OO. TIE CAT AND NOOSE ACC It is stated that Mr. Hugh Franklin , who was released on a fifteen days' licence under the Cat and Mouse Act leas failed to return to Wormwood Scrubbe Prison, where rhe was ...

... MISSING PRISONERS. The futility of what has earned the name of the Cat and Mouse Act is already demonstrated. Four suffragist prisoners who acre released after hunger-striking have not returned to prison on the expiration of their period of grace ...

... police-court proceedings, and a whole page is devoted to a coming festival. With regard to the Cat-and-Mouse Act and the missing mice,” the paper says: The cats are sitting at the mouseholes, but apparently the mice have left other doors.” NEWMARKET POLUNG ...

... facing bankruptcy as a political protest, is printed on page 477 of this issue. The Cat and Mouse Act in Operation It is only a few weeks since the outrageous Cat and Mouse Bill was placed on the Statute Book, and already we are faced •with ...

... the arrest Miss Annie Bell Brighton yesterday morning the number Suffragette prisoners who were released under the Cat and Mouse” Act and are now missing is reduced to ; four. ! Miss Bell wan committed prison for causing : obstruction outside Holloway ...

... HC. By tbe arrest Miss Annie Bell Brighton on Sunday the number of Suffragist prisoners who were released under the Cat and Mouse Act and aro now missing is reduced four. ...