The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-12
FORC|DLE FEEDING
To KEEP MISS PAUL
IN ENGLISH JAIL
Moorestown Girl, Arrested for
Suffrage Riot, Has Joined
the Hunger Strike"
FRIENDS FEAR SHE WILL
BE COMPELLED TO EAT
On Two Previous Occasions She
Gained Her Release After
Five Days in Prison.

LONDON, gNovs 12.-FMiss Alice Paul,
of Moorcstown, N. j., graduate OF
swafthmore College and the University
Or Pernsyfvania. Ii was said today may
DO released from the Holloway jail,
where she vas sentenced to a month
at hard labor for her share in the
window smashing episode at Guild Hall
during the Lord Mayors banquet.
Miss Paul has Joined In the hunger
strike'' as q protest against inpprlson-
ment. This Is not her first experience
In prison, or as a hunger striker
Since the end OF July she has served
two other terms of imprisonment in the
suffragette cause. both of which ended
In her release after a few days for
medical reasons. the result OF steady
refusal to take food.
Miss Paul has been in London study
ms at the School of Economies. While
there she became acquainted with Miss
Barrett. one of the organizers of the
National Women's Social Political
Union. which Mrs. Emmaline Pank-
hurst founded.
At first Miss Paul's interest amounted
merely to attending q few meetings.
but last June she became an enthusiast
tic supporter of the movement and
offered her services to the militant
work. Her first effort In this direction
was at Chancellor Lloyd Georges Lime
house meeting on July 80. AS a result
she was arrested and sentenced to IA
days imprisonment without the option
of a fine. On this occasion she origi-
mated the Idea of going without food.
After she had erved five days the au-
thorities ordered her release.
Her mex conflict with he police was
in the Scottish suffragette campaign.
Under the leadership of Mrs. Pankhurst
there was a window breaking demon
stration at Dundee on September II.
Miss Paul was sentenced to a q fine
OF S25 or go to prison for ten days.
She went to prison and again in prac-
Using the hunger strike effected her
release after five days.
Miss Paul's efforts In the suffragette
cause have not been confined solely to
militant work., for she is a brilliant
public speaker and has rendered yeo-
man service In this respect at political
meetings, especially in the recent bye
| election for Bermondsey. although she
had no part in the outrage at the bal
lot-box when acid was thrown by the
suffragettes.
At the office of the National woman's
Social Political Union Miss Pankhurst
declared that Miss Paul was a valued
member of the organization.
I'VE do not know when she will be
liberated" she said. "hut on two for-
mer occasions her Imprisonment was
ended after she had gone without food
Ave days. Neither time was an effort
made to feed her forcibly, but we are
not sure whether the Holloway authori-.
ties VIII not force her 70 take food
In fact. we suspect they WILL If they
don't. she should be released within
the next day or two"
Owing to the stringent prison rules
It is impossible TO see Miss Paul. or
even TO get into communication with
her. She evidently expects to have
| forcible feeding to contend with, as,
| when arrested. n feeding apparatus
! such as Is used for this purpose was
found on her. She is believed to lave
obtained the apparatus with the object
of averting contact with the one usual
~ employed by the prison medical stan.
She is described as an earnest young
woman and has made numberless
friends.
Another visitor from the United
States. her friend. Miss Lucy Burns,
like herself, is a strong supporter
OF the suffragette cause and
knows what the inside of more than
one British prison is like. 1t was Miss
Burns who. wearing an evening dress.
managed TO get inside the banquet hall
| o.. Eufldhau IN Tuesday night n adj
dress a personal remonstrance to Win
ston Churchill as he was passing In
with his wife.
Miss Burns. waving a tiny banner in
his face. asked him: How can you
dine here while women are starving in
prison." Policemen speedily escorted
her outside the building.