SUFFRAGETTE RAID.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1611, 30 November 1912, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE RAID.

MAIL MATTER DESTROYED. Br TelearnDli—Press Association—Copyright (Bee. November 29, 11.40 p.m.) London, November 29. The latest Suffragette raid has been on the city pillar-boxes, into which acid has been dropped, and a quantity of letters destroyed. The Suffragettes chose the letter-boxes in the vicinit yof the Stock Exchange and Mark lane, the acids destroying many cheques, share certificates, and contracts. Similar outrages occurred in' the West End, and at Finchley, Cambcrwell, and Islington, where four hundred letters were damaged. In some cases the acids were contained in corkless bottles and phials labelled "Votes for Women." Sometimes the trouble was only' discovered in the General Post Office.by piles of letters breaking into flames, which officials quickly smothered. Occasionally, paraffin rags and lighted matches were found. in the post-boxes. Tho staffs ,at the sorting offices 6pent hours in deciphering the damaged addresses. Ten letter-boxes in the centre of Birmingham were smothered in tar and varnish. 1 Similar wholesale destruction occurred at Nottingham. , The outrages are apparently the Suffragettes' reprisals for being outwitted in their attempts to interfere with the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, on Friday, at Ilkestone. , ; At Newcastle hundreds of letters were damaged by ink being poured in the boxes.