THE HORSEWHIP.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1826, 12 August 1913, Page 5

THE HORSEWHIP.

SUFFRAGETTES' NEW WEAPON. ATTACK ON NEWSPAPER . PROPRIETOR. By Tfjegrapli—Press Association-Copyright London, 'August 10. A number of Suffragettes attempted to horsewhip Mr. Pearson, the. newspaper proprietor, when a party of women just released from prison ran to his rescue. A sharp melee followed. The Suffragettes were quickly worsted, and had to bo rescued by the police. . Ordinary prisoners have a strong antipathy to tho Suffragettes, because they arc released' while the rest are obliged to serve their sentences. Tlie women who rescued Mr. Pearson were obviously delighted at the opportunity of Tefitilating their grievances in a practical manner. THREAT OF A DUCKING. London, 'August 10. During jiis address to 10,000 miners; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. LloydGeorge, was much interrupted by Suffragettes. Tho chairman threatened that tho 1 audienco might duck the offenders'in a pond. Suffragettes fired the higher grado Echools-at Sutton, in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, paTaflin and explosives being used. The police cut tho fuses of the explosives and tho fire brigade extinguished th© fire. Tlie damage was not serious. ' HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT. London, August 10. At a free speech demonstration in. Trafalgar Square, Mr. Wedgwood (Liberal M.P.), Mr. Will Thorpe (Labour M.P.), and Mr. George L'ansbury (ex-Socialist M.P.), spoke. The meeting culminated in Miss Sylvia Pankhurst's arrest' for loading an attack on Ministers' residences in Downing Street. There was a hand-to-hand fight, in which the police used their truncheons. (Rec. August 11, 11.30 p.m.) London, August 11. The promoters of the free-speech demonstration at Trafalgar Squaro were dismayed at the attendance of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst at. tlie meeting. Mr. J. C. Wedgwood (Liberal member for Newcastle-imder-Lynie), who was presiding, had discountenanced disorder, when suddenly Miss Pankhnfst climbed the plinth of the monument and unfurled a flag, inscribed "Deeds, not words, with an, argument of sticks and stones, is going to win women's freedom.'" After a violent tirade, she ran to Whitehall; closely attended by a bodyguard of £ast-end youth*. The police then arrested Hiss Pankhurst, and also ten men, and: eleven women. A party of militants at .Westminster Abbey chanted the Pankhurst Litany, and' refused to desist until the vergers escorted them outside. A HOLD-UP FRUSTRATED. ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.; (Rcc. August 11, 6.30 p.m.) London, August 11. • The Chancellor (Mr. Lloyd-George), when returning to London from Wales by train, altered his plans, and stopped tho express at a waysido station, frustrating a Suffra-, gette hold-up that had been planned.