SCENE AT ST PAUL'S.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 21 October 1913, Page 7

SCENE AT ST PAUL'S.

SUFFRAGETTE PRAYER ENDS IN DISORDER. VERGERS AND POLICE ASSAULTED; By Telegraph—Press Aseodatlon—Oopyriffhi (Reo. October 21, 0.20 a.m.) London, October 20. Five groups of women, mid a number of sympathisers, at St. Paul's chanted the Suffragetto prayer. Tho vergers asked them to either desist or leavo. Sovoral clung to their chairs, and shouted out. Tho vergers ejected sixteen, but ono of them, before . being ejectcd, struck two vergers violently in tho face. When outsido they fought tho police, throwing a constablo down, and escaping, but afterwards being recaptured. Tho uproar lasted for half an hour, but the sorvico was not stopped. Suffragettes interrupted servicos in tho Norwich and Birmingham Cathedrals. They prayed for "women tortured for conscience sakei" MRS. PANKHUR9T. INTERVIEWED IN NEW YORK. New York, October 19. Mrs. Pankhurst, interviewed, declared that Americans' ancestors had been guilty of moral turpitude when they threw tho tea into Bostop. Harbour. Suffragettes throughout America telegraphed sympathy with Mrs. Pankhurst, although many explained that thoy did not sympathise with militancy. (Reo. October 20, 11.60 p.m.) Now York, Octobor 20. Mrs. Pankhurst says that if a ship takes her home, it takes her to death. "I have suffered from previous hungerstrikes, and cannot stand another," she added. LILIAN LENTON OUTWITS THE POLICE. London, Octobor 19. Though the police kopt a strict watch outside her house, Miss Lilian Lenton, • the Suffragetto, again outwitted them, and escaped.