SUFFRAGETTE WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1757, 23 May 1913, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE WAR.

BOMB EXPLODES IN OBSERVATORY. A BITER BIT. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright London, May 21. A bomb exploded in tho west doino of the Edinburgh Royal Observatory. A large hole was mado in the second floor, and' tho instruments were injured. It i 9 stated that the bomb contained several pounds of gunpowder. It was in an earthenware jar, and was fired by a fuse thirty feet long. Fragments were embedded in tho wall, and blood stains showed that one of tho perpetrators had been injured by glass, which liad been blown a distanoo of fifty yards.

NAN-MILITANTS MOBBED. London! May 21. A crowd attacked tho headquarters of non-militant Suffragists at Hastings, mobbed the women leaving tho meeting, and tlirow eggs and flour The crowd then visited a hotel where it was believed prominent Suffragettes were lodging, and stoned the windows, "CAUSE FINANCIALLY BANKRUPT." London, May 21. The "Standard" declaros that the Suffragetto statements regarding huge funds are a gigantic bluff, and that the causo will soon bo financially bankrupt. Of ■£15,000 collected at the Albert Hall, Xlt.ooo consisted of dumlny cheques and promises. ARREST FOR INCENDIARISM. London, May 21. Miriam Pratt, aged 23, a schoolmistress, has been arrested for incendiarism at Cambridge.