UNDER ARREST.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1684, 26 February 1913, Page 7

UNDER ARREST.

MRS. PANKHURST REMOVED.

CHARGE OF INCITEMENT.

'HUNGER-STRIKER' COLLAPSES AND IS RELEASED, i Uy Teleert ph—Prcfes Absoeiatlon—Oopyrisht London, February 24. Mis. Pankhurst is to bp charged under the Malicious Damage to Property Act, with incitement, in connection with tho outrage at whero u house, to bo used by Mr. Lloyd-Georgo (Chancellor of the Exchequer), was wrecked. Sho has been arrested and removed to Epsom. Irilian Lenton, one of the two young women arrested for tho Kew Gardens tearoom outrage, has been released from prison. Sho was in a state of collapse, -having refused to take food. DISORDERLY MEETINGS. London, February 24. Miss Annie Kenny, speaking nt Bow, dared the authorities to allow women to die in prison. In the event of its doing so, it-, would make militants by tho hundreds. Mrs. Despard was forced to abandon a meeting at Thornton Heath, and other suffragettes were' refused a hearing at Wimbledon. , (Rec. February 26, 0.20 a.m.) London, February 25. 7 A suffragette meeting, held in the Pavilion Music Hall, developed into a succession of fights with male interrupters, who successfully resisted ejectment. Mrs. Drummond, appealing for contributions to the fighting fund, said that they did not require gunpowder; one gift had been; promised of a quantity of paraffin. Another' speaker declared , that Mrs. Pankhurst's arrest would,, increase' tho militancy of tho suffragettes a hundredfold. '7 "ORGANISED BLACKGUARDISM." , PLAIN TALK FROM MR, 1 JOHN '' BURNS. \ (Rec. February 2G, 0.20 a.m.) London, February 25. Suffragettes interrupted Mr. John Burns (President of the Local Government Board) while ho was speakiiig at Battersea.' Several wore ejected. Mr. Burns said that the' Government meant to break down this tyranny of organised blackguardism. It was in the interest of democracy that such despotism which had desecrated and thrown back the women's cause for years should be terminated. " A WEEK'S VANDALISM. ' : DAMAGE TOTALS jCGOOO. London, February 24. Suffragettes- did JCGOOO worth of damage last week. v A, party bearing sandwich boards at Preston was pelted with eggs, and refuse end obliged to take .shop.-. ■ Scats on Hnmpstead. Ilpath were stenoillod .with green paint':. "Votes, for. women!" The paint damaged visitors' ; dresses. • 1 • • Signal wires were cut ..on ;the Great Western railway nt Newport. The "Daily Citizen" says the public temper, is rising against Mrs. Pankhurst's militancy. The present methods are injuring tho cause more than,the anti-suf-frage leagues'are.