WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 58, 4 March 1912, Page 5

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.

AN UNEXPECTED It AIN IN LONDON. WHOLESALE WIN LOW-SMASH INO ißy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, March 2. The suffragists made a raid on Saturday in Louden. It was quite unexpected. Hundreds sa hod out, caiSiar« muffs concealing hammers. ITt preconcerted stool tl.ej smnAcd a P hundred windows trom the Strand to Bond Street. . r r „ There were 121 arrests, Mtes Pan.hhu.rst, who broke tne I remidr’#vvindov.H. After smashing the “SX Miss Pankhurst wrendied her arm free from the constable and broke a- window of the. Home Office. Meanwhile other women broke the Colonial Office window. Various parties made a rapid descent on private premises and large stores at different points, wantonly wrecked windows, including: *tewait, Dawson’s, the Canadian-Pacific Com■nany’s, tlie Kodak Company s, the Civil Service Stores,,. Dnveen Bros , Liberty’s, and all the leading drapers and furniture, warehouses m Oxlowi Street, as well as the Post Offices m Regent Street and Charing Cross. 'JWie women arrived m fashionable vehicles, and entered the shops ostensibly to make purchases .ami then suddenly ismashed the windows pt rows oi shops in Bond Street. Carpenters have been employed through the night barricading the broken fronts. It is estimated that damage amounting to, £4OOO was caused. Ohristabel Pankhurst .stated that as the miners were getting legislation because they made themselves a nuisance, the’women were incited to act similarly.

VERY EXTENSIVE DAMAGE. (Received 4, 8.30 a.m.) London, March 3. Mrs Pankhurst was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment and several others to from fourteen days to two months. The majority of the arrestees were remanded or committed for trial for doing damage amounting to over a hundred pounds each-