SUFFRAGETTE WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1613, 3 December 1912, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE WAR.

VIOLENCE IN, COURT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, December 1. Three of the. Suffragettes arrested in consequence of the disturbances at Mr. Lloyd-George's meeting at Aberdeen have been remanded. Being dissatisfied with this delay, they removed their ehcea and hurled them at the Magistrate, but did not sucoeed in hitting him. A Suffragette at Aberdeen slashed a. Baptist minister across the face with a whip, mistaking him for Mr. LloydGeorgo. THE SPLIT IN THE CAMP. "The four great leaders of militant Suffragism have fallen out," says "The Times." "Mrs. Pankhurst, supported by her fugitive daughter, has apparently devised Bomo new and fearful form of public, outrage which Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, hitherto unshaken, have not been able to foce. "The Women's Social and Political Union has already eet forces in motion which it cannot pretend to control, end the danger of some violent public reaction against its votaries is growing greater every day." . ■ "It .is obvious," says the "Daily News," "thoiigh ; neither edde will' put it into plain, blunt language, that this secession is duo to the policy of outrages on property on which the militant Suffragists have/embarked. It is one'thing' to organise insults and assaults on Cabinet Ministers, and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence 'have found no difficulty in employing their wealth for that purpose. But when it comes to setting fire to theatres—one of the most criminal forms of lunacy possible to conceive—th»;y have parted company with the Pankhurst family. These ladies have now embarked on an Ishmaelite policy, which niuet have the effect of further alienating sympathetic opinion." "The announcement that the Women's Social and Political Union—the militant section ff women Suffragists—intends to offer active opposition to Labour candidates in three-cornered fights comes as no surprise and holds no terrors," says the "Daily Citizen." "The W.S.P.U. has deolared war on the Labour'party because the party wisely and properly declines to tear up mandates received from its own conferences and pledges given to constituents in order to accept instructions from an outside hostile organisation."