British tactics evolve (1 янв 1909 г. – 31 дек 1919 г.)

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“[But] It was not until over 300 arrests had been made that the suffragettes began to hurl stones through windows, in 1908. Suffragettes were arrested at any gatherings that threatened to be less than totally peaceful, but at this point, before 1910, they offered no resistance when arrested. When tried, the suffragettes refused to be fined; they chose imprisonment instead, and insisted on being categorized as political prisoners. Once in prison, they went on hunger strikes. Marion Wallace, in 1909, became the first hunger striker, and though she refused food and water without any previous discussion with Pankhurst or the other members of the WSPU… other suffragettes quickly followed her lead; the strikes drew the press's, and the public's, interests. The response of the prisons to the suffragettes' hunger strikes was force-feeding, a gory process that involved shoving a steel tube down the throat or nose of the inmate. This process, once known to the press, aroused public outcry on the side of the suffragettes; this form of torture: especially its being applied to women, still thought of as the weaker sex: ‘helped to stir up public anxiety. Even Conservative MPs [members of Parliament] joined in the the protest in Parliament.’”

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