WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 60, 6 March 1912, Page 5

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.

FURI HER ARRESTS ARISING OUT OF MONDAY’S RaID,

CONCILIATION DILL KILLED,

,By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

London, March 5.

Tho windows of thirty premises and four post offices were wrecked yesterday in cue suffragette raid. Tho perpetrators were members of thb

Liverpool section. Tiro advance on Westminster in tho evening was heralded by the firing of a rocket from tho headquarters of tho Women’s Political Union. Strong police reinforcements arrived, and tho procession was broken up. There were twenty thousand spectators. A number of windows were smashed in the Government Offices, and a contingent attempted to enter ttp Palace yard. • . There were brief but turbulent scenes, the police expelling two hundred. Arrests were made occasionally. Tlie spectators roughly handled the suffragettes. A counter demonstration by two hundred yohiths smashed the window’s of various suffragette literature shops in the Strand.

While the mounted police were clearing Whitehall the pressure icf the crowd precipitated a. portion of the masonry coping of the Treasury into the arena, several being hurt-. j-: Thte Royal Academy was closed during an exhibition, owing to the receipt of a warning .that three was ■_ a risk of suffragettes damaging the pio-

tures. ci Emily Pitfield, a nurse, was committed for trial in connection with the Post Office fire. : i

Mr McKenna has withdrawn from the insubordinates in Holloway Gaol permission to receive visitors. v

The concensus of opinion amongst the, members of . the House of Commons is that the recent actions of the 1 militant suffragettes has killed the Conciliation Bill, and that the suffragettes have no longer any possibility of the present Parliament’s support. The Premier, questioned regarding legislation empowering the recovery of damages from the funds of the Women’s Political Union, promised to consult the He added that there was a widespread opinion that the responsibility should he brought home to the Wreched indhidu'als concerned and othler responsible persons. “COMPELLED TO COERCE.” (Received, 6 8.5. aim.) • ■ .London,; jMaroh-, Mrs.. Pethick Lawrence, addressing , the Women’s Political Union, said that now private property was attacked, j the public,' in its own interest, would he compelled to coerce the Government. > Miss Pahkhurst defended the wreck- •; ing of innocent tradesmen’s windows on this grounds that no election was innocent of Friday’s methods. There were insufficient women to terrorize the whole male community.