SUFFRAGETTE OUTRAGES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 545, 26 February 1913, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE OUTRAGES.

PLOT AGAINST CABINET

HYSTERICAL MRS PANKHURST,

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—CopyriffM « London, Monday. SuffragetteH cut a large number of telegraph wires near Newcastle. Three more letter box outrages have occurred at Lewisham, London. A postman was slightly burned. A fire occurred in the ladies' waiting rooms adjoining the Royal Pavilion in tha Kempton Park racecourse. The outbreak was quickly extinguished by the brigade. It is supposed that the fire waß caused by suffragettes. Suffragettes also set fire to the old Manchester Golf Club pavilion. The brigade extinguished the fire. Disorderly scenes occurred at a women's suffrage meeting at Edmonton, Middlesex, last night. The police broke up the meeting, and I cleared the building. Mrs Pankhurst addressed a crowded meeting in the Chelsea Town Hall last night. A large force of police was stationed outside the hall. The speaker met with a mixed reception. She delivered a hysterical speech, in whicb she declared that "women will do their utmost to safeguard human life, but they mean to do everything necessary to settle the status of woman once and for all." Mrs Pankhurst defied the Government to arrest her. 'lt is wrong" she said, "that the women who have committed offences are sent to prison while I, who incited them, am free. How is the Government going to end it?" A Voice: Put you in the zoo. (Laughter and uproar). Considerable uproar and an angry demonstration took place outside the hall. A hundred actions are pending against Mrs Pankhurst and other members of the Women's Social and Political Union. The Standard states that the suffragettes are plotting to kidnap certain members of the Cabinet. It adds that the Government is taking special precautions to prevent the plot being successful. Detectives are in constant attendance upon prominent members of the Cabinet. Sir Robert Anderson, formerly head of the Criminal Investigation Department, suggests that a bill should be passed declaring the window smashers to be criminal lunatics, and that they should be sent to the asylums. Some of the newspapers, in discussing the problem of how to deal with the women, suggest the imposition of heavy fines, in additoin to imprisonment. The observer suggests that all political parties should agree not to support any Suffrage Bill while the militant policy continues.