THE SUFFRAGETTES
V _ —n — ■ ATTACKED BY A MOB. By IWesrapli—Press Association-'"oDnight London, July 17. A mob, armed with sticks andston.es, stormed a Suffragette meeting at tho Holland.Park Rink, and smashed the windows. Suffragettes and men friends barricaded the doors .and used dozens of poles, bayonet fashion, against the mob. Tho, siege was sustained until the police' relieved the defenders, Anne Hunt, a. Suffragette, with a butcher's fleavOr (which she had concealed in her dress), viciously slashed Fane Miller's portrait of Carlyle (Several times, damaging the face seriously. An attendant with great, difficulty prevented further damage. Hunt was brought before the' Police Court, and committed for trial. THE .QUESTION OF BAIL. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. London, July 17. In the House of Commons, Mr. M'Kenna (Homo Seoretary), interrogated, declined to interfere with tho discretion of magistrates in tho bailing of Suffragettes'pending'their trial. Ha said he saw no objection to bail provided offenders ■; gave an undertaking that they' would not commit other offences meantime. Mr; M'Kenna admitted that his house'had been boseiiged < that morning, and that ho. had oscaped in a taxi, unobserved. ' '
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2206, 20 July 1914, Page 5
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182THE SUFFRAGETTES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2206, 20 July 1914, Page 5
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