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reported the next day: "The West End of London last night was the scene of an unexampled outrage on the part of militant suffragists.... Bands of women paraded Regent Street, Piccadilly, the Strand, Oxford Street and Bond Street, smashing windows with stones and hammers." Hilda was arrested for
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about women's suffrage titled ‘The women have died, but that did not stop militancy’. She named women who had died for the cause and those ‘partially dead in body though not in spirit.’ She claimed that thousands other women were left and ready to demolish ‘pictures, churches, houses …’ while
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