ART GALLERIES CLOSED.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14976, 25 May 1914, Page 7

ART GALLERIES CLOSED.

UPROAR- IN THE COURTS

(Received May 24th, 5.5 p.m.)

LONDON, 31ay 23

The National Gallery and Wallace collection have been closed indefinitely.

Tho documents found in the house raided by tb.o police at 31aida Vale included plans of a country house. Several coils of inflammable cord wero also seized. Annie Kenney interviewed the Prim-* at-e and intimated her intention of remaining at Lambeth Palace. She was finally arrested under the Cat and Mouse Act. Besides the attempt to harangue the King, leaflets were showered from tho stalls past the front of tho Roj-al box. Their 3lajestios were unmoved throughout, but the audience, of which twothirds wero women, exhibited intenso indignation at tho disturbances. In most of the Polico Courts where tho suffragettes wero charged, pandemonium reigned, especially at Bow street, where sixty-five of them struggled and yelled. .Male and female sympathisers joined in th© uproar, and blows were exchanged with the police before the Court was cleared. A hatle_s suffragette threw a boot, which the Chief 31agistrate (Sir John Dickinson) deftly cought with his left hand.