THE MORNING POST OCTOBER 20 1913

MRS PANKHURST IN THE UNITED STATES

DETENTION BY IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.

England may learn something from the United States in the matter of the treatment of militant Suffragists. When Mrs. Pankhurst arrived, and was told that she would not be permitted to enter the country she promptly announced her intention of going on hunger strike. She was informed, however, that that was her privilege, and that she might eat or starve as she preferred. Thereupon she promptly withdrew her threat. The United States is less Maudlin than England in its treatment of prisoners, and if Mrs. Pankhurst should go on hunger strike she could not be forcibly fed nor would the Government fear being denounced as a murderer for her death if she should starve herself

APPEAL TO WASHINGTON

NEW YORK, Oct. 18

Mrs. Pankhurst who upon landing her this morning was taken to Ellis Island to appear before a special board of inquiry charged with ascertaining whether her conviction in England was for a crime involving moral turpitude, and has been refused admission to the United States by the Ellis Island authorities, will appeal to Washington - Reuters