SYLVIA PANKHURST'S MAY DAY EXPLOITS
IRREPRESSIBLE AGITATOR BEFORE THE COURT. ,■ t London, May 2. Sylvia. Pankhurst was charged at Bow Street Police Court with obstructing the police in Bow Street. She claimed the right to enter the Houso of Commons. The mounted police dispersed the procession while it was on the way from Hyde Park. Its object was to protest to members of Parliament against the wars with Russia and Hungary, to demand the introduction of .the Soviet system in Engand to disclose the fact that the dock workers in London wore working harder than they ever did in war-time, shipping ammunition to Russia. Miss Pankhurst refused to bo , bound over, and was subsequently discharged.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
THE PARIS RIOTS. ' Paris, May 2. Three hundred and fifiy demonstrators wore injured and ono killed in the May Day riots. Fifty were .arrested and detained 'iu custody. One hundred policemen were injured. Everything is quiet in.the provinces. A mass meeting, consisting mostly of railwaynicn, discussed the possibility of a general strike by way of protest against police intervention during May Day cele-brations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A^sn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 191, 8 May 1919, Page 7
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183SYLVIA PANKHURST'S MAY DAY EXPLOITS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 191, 8 May 1919, Page 7
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