SUFFRAGETTE WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1615, 5 December 1912, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE WAR.

MORE PILLAR-BOX RAIDS. By Telosraph—Press Aesociatlon-Oopyrieht London, December 3. Policemen are engaged at night tiuio guarding post offices and pillar-boxes in Central London against suffragette raiders. The contents of many boxes in Clublaud were defaced, and three hundred letters were mutilated in the pillar-boxes at the Royal Exchange to-night. Mrs. Pankhurst, addressing a meeting in London at the Opera House, said; "We have not yet been militant enough." Mr. Lansbury, late Labour M.P. for Tower Hamlets, who resigned his seat in Parliament and recontested ifcas a suffragette champion, has confessed that he has qualms about the pillar-box and other campaigns. The Aberdeen suffragettes, who were fined twenty shillings, or five days' gaol, for disturbing Mr. Lloyd-George's meeting, have gone to prison. Evidence was given that women were secreted in a paybox in the.theatre for twelve hours. The women shouted a protest from the dock, and one had to be forcibly ejected. CABINET MINISTERS' DIFFICUL- « TIES. ~~ r___ London, December 3. Mr. Lloyd-George, •in addressing the Welsh members of the House of Commons, .said ithat tho attitude of the militant suffragists towards tho Premier made it difficult for some members of thb Cabinet to support women's suffrage. Personally he favoured the Norwegian system. PROSPECTS OF THE SUFFRAGE BILL. (Rec. December i, 10.50 p.m.) ■ London, December 4. Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Ex-, chequer, replying to a Welsh women's suffrage demonstration, aaid the amendment of the Franchise Bill was less propitious than a year ago owing to the militant suf-