SUFFRAGETTE WAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1541, 10 September 1912, Page 7

SUFFRAGETTE WAR.

VANDALISM AT BALMORAL. By Teleerapli—Prcsa Association—Oopyrfclit London, September 8. A number of suffragettes, evading tho police guards, entered Balmoral Custlo grounds and removed tho hole (lags from the golf course, substituting others hearing inscriptions against forcible feeding. They also painted on inscription on the memorial fountain, on tho roadsido between Ballater and Bracmar. Tho inscription placed'on tho fountain was: "Ministers are responsible for the. present action." There is much indignation over this piece of vandalism.. Several suffragettes who recently went 'to Aberdeen after Mr. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, intended to mob tho Prime Minister at Crathie Church today, but Mr. Asquith had left Balmoral, Many local and Scotland Yard police surrounded Balmoral Castle. It is presumed the women hid in the shrubberies till night time. THE DUBLIN OUTRAGES. FIRE-RAISING AND HATCHETTHROWING. In opening the City of Dublin. Commission on August 1, Mr. Justice .Madden, in addressing the grand jury, referred to the caso in which four English female Suffragists, named Mary Leigh, Gladys Evans, Lizzie Baker, and Mabel Capper, wero charged in connection with the fire in the Theatre Royal and the throwing of a hatchet at the Prime Minister on tho night of the entry of the right hon. gentleman into Dublin. His lordship said: In the depositions it is stated that Gladys Evans was arrested in the act of throwing lighted matches into what is called a kincmatograph box, and when airested sho said: "I was well persuaded to do what I did." A Rearch was made, and a basket was found full of patent firo-lighters all alight. Bottles were found containing explosive substances. I have before me a report by Professor M'Weeney upon the character of the articles which on that occasion were found in tho Theatre Koyal. il am not going into the details of it, but it is of a most startling character. It appears that the enrtaine of a private box next to the stage were actually on fire. Fortunately an attendant was able to extinguish the fire with buckets of water. A carpet was alight, and. a woman was seen striking a match and dropping it on the carpet.

Two soldiers took off tlieir coats and extinguished the flames. A quantity of gunpowder, which had been placed_Jn a flnsk under one of iho seat?) or tiers in the theatre, exploded with a noiso which is described as equal to that of tho discharge of a cannon. We must refrojniso with gratitude tho promptitude of the attendants in tho theatre and of the soldiers who were happily present, for by their action a terriblo calamity .was averted. -

The second outrage was also of a most serious character. As Mr. Asquith was driving through the city in company with Mt. John Redmond, a woman, identified as tho prisoner Mary Lcighj (lung a hatchet at the occupants of tho carriage, presumably aimed at Mr, Asquith— I say that because he appears to have been, tho principal object of this criminal demonstration—but missed him, and struck Mr. Redmond, who was sitting next to him. Hnppily, it only grazed bis ear, not causing serious injury, but a hatchet thrown at close quarters is a most dangerous engine of attack, capable of causing serious, and even fatal," injury, and the person who flung that hatchet at the occupants must be taken as realising and contemplating Iho consequences which might naturally be exnected to follow from such an act.