SCENE AT COURT.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14987, 6 June 1914, Page 11

SCENE AT COURT.

SUFFRAGETTE INVADES THE PALACE.

SYMPATHISERS TO PA¥.

"SISTERS Oi' SATAN."

(Received June sth, 9.14 p:m.) LONDON, June G. During tho holding of a Court at Buckingham Palace, a handsome, youthful suffragette, provided with a proper ticket of admission, fell on her knees in the Royal presence and cried shrilly, with bands outstretched: "For God's sake, your Majesty, stop torturing women." The band played loudly, and drowned tho interruption. The King and Queon gave no evidence of surprise. Officials carried out the intruder. The Law Officers of the Crown havo now decided that the property of all who hove. Mibscribed to the funds of militant organisations can be attached in respect to damage done. A complete, list of subscribers was -<-%»mecl when the offices of the Women's Social and Political Union wero raided last j week.

Emotional outbursts mark the weekly meetings of the suffragettes, which resemble Welsh revival meetings. Every sentence of tho speakers is punctuated with groans and hisses, while there aro continuous outbursts of frenzied cheering.

The New York "Sun," commenting on Mrs Pankhurst, describes her as a devil, and a dangerous ono at that, and protests against the mushy, sentimental chivalry with which the authorities aro treating these "Sisters of which, it cays, is jelly-hacked and futile.

Canadian newspapers also comment on tho amazing feebleness and supineness of the British authorities.