"DUCK THEM!"

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1689, 4 March 1913, Page 5

"DUCK THEM!"

—f —— SUFFRAGETTE SCENES. ; PELTED WITH CLODS. Br TolenraDli—Pr«a Association—OopyrisM (Rec. March 8, 10.20 p.m.) London, March 3. . Eight thousand attended a suffragette meeting in Hyde Park. A section of the crowd pelted Mrs. Drummond with clods of earth. Five thousand were nt, a meeting at Wimbledon and harassed tho speakers * with motor-horns and cries of "Duck them!" A band of youths rushed' the platform, but were overpowered by tho ■ police. There was wild confusion for half an hour. ' 1 ; ' , ■ Tho police rescued tho suffragettes. ORGAN-GRINDERS BAITED. SUFFRAGETTES ROUGHLY' HANDLED. London, March 2, A largo crowd in Shaftesbury Avenue, • chiefly recruited from Soho, attacked two suffragettes who were playing a barrelorgan on behalf of the women's funds. The crowd overturned and smashed tho organ. . ■ Tho police eventually rescued the , women. \ j" WOMEN WRECKERS SUSPECTED. London, March 2. Through an explosion in the parccls'ftf- ■ fice of th© South Western Railway 'Com-' ' Pony's station at Devonport, William Gay, ft clerk, was eeriously injured and tho ' office wrecked. A portion of a tin <wat found. Suffragettes are suspected. POLICE WERE NOT HOAXED. . (Rec, March 3,, 8.55 p.m.) > Pontypool, March 3. ■ ilio police dony that they were hoaxed ' hy the suffragettes. They-'state that tha I placards wore issued in error.'