RAID ON BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
AN ABORTIVE AFFAIR
(By Cable.—Prc* s Association.—Copyright.) LOXDOX. May 21. The neighbourhood cf Buckingham Pa.'aco is liko a. camp. Polico Mirround tLe- building two deep, with a ring of bayonets behind them. Another thousand polico aro held in readiness. ]ii tho presence of many thousands of people, tho suffragettes' raid on Buckingham Palace was a fiasco. A little band of women, headed by Mrs Pankhur.st, Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, and Mrs Tuke. quitted tho crowd and rushed tow.-irdi tho police cordon at tho top of Constitution Hill.
Mrs Pankhurst was seized, and placed in a taxi-cab, shouting: ''That's right. Arrested at tho gates of iho Palace. Toll tho King."
Sylvia Pankhurst was removed to Holloway gaol.
Thoro was much hand-to-hand fighting, and several police- wero yijured.
"Women throw -white and green colouring matter over the police. Fortytwo women and three men were arrested.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14975, 23 May 1914, Page 11
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146RAID ON BUCKINGHAM PALACE. Press, Volume L, Issue 14975, 23 May 1914, Page 11
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