SUFFRAGETTE RAID.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE RAID.

MRS. PANKHURST SENT TO GAOL. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, March 3. There is an outcry against the suffragettes' demonstrations. The newspapers urgo the prosecution of suffragettes under the Conspiracy Act, which provides heavy punishments. Mr. E. S. Fordhuin, the well-known London magistrate, complains of the ten dency of magistrates to inflict light punishments on offending suffragettes. Mrs. Pankhurst was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and several others to from fourteen days to two months. The majority of those arrested were romanded or committed for trial on charges of doing damage amounting to over one hundred pounds each. In sentencing Mrs. Pankhurst, the magistrate said tho Buffragettes had brought the country to a state, -which would not bo allowed in any civilised land. If the law was ineffective, it must be amended.

' INCENDIARISM, ATTEMPT TO FIRE POST OFFICE. (Rcc. March 5j 0.50 a.m.) London, March i. The newspapers, in discussing tho suffragetto raid, suggest that the law of conspiracy enables tho recovery of damages from the funds of an organisation directing a raid, equally with the chattels of individual raiders. A suffragette was arrested'on Sunday night for dropping on the floor of the telegraphic department of tho General Post Office, in Roman Bath Street, in the city, •a basket of blazing shavings saturated with paraffin. It is understood that this is the prelude to an organised series of outrages on post offices.