THE BETTER WAY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1753, 19 May 1913, Page 5

THE BETTER WAY.

TO THE SUFFRAGE. . HOW MILITANCY AFFECTS THE CAUSE. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Kec. May IP, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 17. Anna Shaw, the American suffragist, in a speech in London, declared that Enj.: land was tho one great factor wherewith tho American suffragists had to contend. The women's conduct in their militan* campaign in England had, she said, satisfied their opponents to the franchise in America that women would not bo safe with; tho ballot, and consequently the American women were being voted down. While Miss Christabel Pankhurst is opposed to the abandonment of militancy in tho "Votes for Women" campaign, some of the other leaders are realising that tho extreme action which is being taken has alienated public sympathy, and they recommend substituting a vigorous educational campaign.

"THE SUFFRAGETTE" RE-ISSUED. CONTENTS HARMLESS. London, May IG.

The newspaper "The Snffragetto" has again, been issued. The contents are harmless. Miss Christabel Pankhurst has an article which condemns tho police for failure to protect speakers at suffragist meetings, and also tho Government's violent suppression of meetings.

bombs far and wide,

AND PLATE-GLASS SCRATCHERS. London, May 16. Bombs containing explosives were discovered at a railway footbridge in "Westbourne Park (on the Great Western Railway), in the Post Office at Wandsworth, the Public Library at Rotherhithe, an hotel at Bcntwood, a Tailwny waitingroom at Aylesbury, and in a, pew of Holy Trinity Church, Hastings. The windows of fifty shops at Norwich were badly scratched. A GUNPOWDER PLOT. (Rec. May 17, 5.5 p.m.) London, Hay 1?. A canister containing twelve pounds of gunpowder was found in the cellars of the Duko of Buccleuch's chapel, in Dalkeith Park, where a bomb was also discovered the other day. The fuse was partiaU." burned. . | FURTHER INCENDIARISM. | (Rec. May 17, 5.5 p.m.) | ■ ' London, May 17. The suffragettes fired a new house at Cambridge. Some injury was caused to the Balfour Laboratory of (knetics, adjoining.