25 NOVEMBER 1916, Page 2

On Friday, November 17th, the Times published a letter from

a distinguished body of anti-suffragists, headed by Lord Cromer, placing on record their belief that for practical purposes there are only two alternatives in regard to Votes for. Women. One is to maintain the existing law, ender which women are unable to vote at the election of Members of Parliament. The other is to sanction universal suffrage for all men and all women. The adoption of the latter course would, they state, involve increasing the electorate from some seven or eight millions to atom twenty- four or twenty-five millions, of whom more than half would be women, their majority amounting, it is believed, to cne million three hundred and fifty thousand.