WINDOW-SMASHING RAIDS.
SUFFRAGETTES AGAIN. PLOT ALLEGED. ■ v WAR ON MR. LLOYD-GEORGE. By Telceraph-Proßs Association-Copyright London, January 28. Tho suffragettes smashed a number of windows in tho Treasury offices and also in shipping companies' offices in Cockspnr Street. Tho police arrested several militant suffragettes from a menacing crowd at Whitehall. Altogether, twenty-two suffragettes have been arrested, chiefly for resisting the police. A deputation visited tho House of Commons and demanded to sec Mr. LloydGeorge. Tho latter refused, but said ho was prepared to receive a deputation tomorrow. Mrs. Drummond said this answer was unsatisfactory, and the deputation attempted to enter St. Stephen's Hall. A scrimmage ensued and several suffragettes, including Mrs. Drummond, were arrested.
Mr. Lloyd-George. l wrote regretting that he will be unable to receive a deputation of suffragettes, and the deputation replied, recalling tho Chancellor of the Exchequer's promise to receive a deputatidn when tho fate of the Bill had been decided, and stating that they will wait for,him in the House of Commons tonight. Mrs. Despard, president of the Women's Freedom league, has been sentenced to a fortnight's'imprisonment. / "A CRIME TOWARDS WOMEN." (Rec. January 29, 9.45 p.m.) London, January 29. Mrs. Despard'accepted imprisonment in preference to paying a fine of 40s. The Home Office, Treasury, Admiralty, and Local Government Board office windows" were broken by the suffragettes, ami then the wreckers destroyed the . huge plateglass windows of the HamburgAmerica Shipping Company's office. •
■ Mrs. Pankhurst, in addressing a suffragette! meeting, declared that the whole plot, even to the Speaker's ruling, had been'decided, on'.'long ago. Mr. LloydGeorge's refusal to receive a deputation confirmed the belief that he was associated with: his colleagues in,the crimo towards women. The .whole business was a trick, anil the Cabinet were all anti-i suffragists at heart. ',-"'>'.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1661, 30 January 1913, Page 5
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