BOMB AND FIRE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 22 February 1913, Page 5

BOMB AND FIRE

THE SUFFRAGETTES DAMAGED HOUSE OWNED BY SUFFRAGIST. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, February 20. Sir George Riddell, newspaper proprietor, is the owner of tho house intended to be used by Mr Lloyd George and which was damaged by a bomb. He is a keen suffragist. The “Star” says tho State must make a stand against bomb outrages. Already there is a grave disparity between the punishment of suffragists and other prisoners. KEW OUTRAGE WOMEN CHASED AND ARRESTED. BOOK THROWN AT MAGISTRATE. LONDON, February 20. Cotton wads, which had been soaked in paraffin, were found near the tea house which was burned in Kew Gardens. . Tho police, at 4 o’clock m the morning, chased and captured Joyce Locke and Lilian Lenton Young, two welldressed women, in the adjoining cricket ground, where portmanteaux containing a saw, hammer, and tow that had boon saturated with paraffin had been dropped. Later the women were brought before the Police Court at Richmond. Locke threatened to go on a “hungerstrike” if she was not allowed bail. The Magistrate: We are not to be frightened by intimidation. Locke then threw a book at the Magistrate, and was taken from the court struggling violently. Both accused were remanded in custody. . The damage to the tea house is set down at £IOOO. ’ LETTERS AGAIN WHOLESALE DAMAGE IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. LONDON, February 20. Two thousand letters and twenty pillar-boxes were damaged in Edinburgh. Fire started in the chief branch of tho Leith sorting office and in Northampton were extinguished. HUMANISEJ) PRISON “MAKES POLITICAL MARTYRDOM TOCJ CHEAP.” LONDON, February 20. The “Daily Chronicle” says that the comfort of the modem humanised prison has made political martyrdom far too cheap. Every outrage merely replenished tho. suffragette societies' coffers. The paper urges that monetary penalties should be exacted. “ FIGHTING FOR REVOLUTION ” CHRISTABEL PANKHUBST REJOICES IN CRIME. (Received February 21, 10.25 pan-) PARIS, February 21. Miss Christabel Pankhurst, interviewed, said she rejoiced in the Wal-ton-on-the-Hill bomb outrage. She declared that the suffragettes were fighting for a revolution.