THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 406, 4 July 1908, Page 4

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Hostile Demonstration. Threats and Punishments. London, Thursday. The crowd at Westminister in connection with the suffragettes’ demonstration was estimated at 75,000. Many frantic and dangerous rushes were made to avoid the police horses. The mobs included many howling hooligans. Mrs Leigh, one of the 26 who were arrested, shouted : “It will be a bomb next lime.’’ She was sentenced, together with Miss New, organiser ol the Suffragettes, to two months’ imprisonment, without the oction of a fine, tor smashing Mr Asquith’s windows. Both had been previously convicted, Mr R. H. Bullock Marshara, in sentencing them, remarked that he would not make it a second division sentence. He commented, during the hearing of the case, on the seriousness of the bomb threat, as this was pointing to an offence which was punishable by hanging. The defendants replied that they did not anticipate any necessity of going further than they had done. Miss New added: “I cannot say what rav future actions will be; they will depend upon the Government doing justice to women.” Mrs Leigh said : “We have no course but to rebel against the pressure of one man; he must yield, or .pay the penalty. We realise the serious position of affairs.” Mr Marsham declared that women were likelier to attain their objects by gentle means than by other methods. It an attempt to terrify men was unsuccessful, it would besides alienate,the sympathy of a larger number of men, who would otherwise be believers in the cause.