THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 81, 30 November 1912, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Tress Association.) London, November 28. _ Pillar-box outrages are general in London and the provinces. In some cases the ac ds ignited irom contact vith the air, and burst into flames.

WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION. ANOTHER MAD ACT. London, November 29. The suffragettes chose letter-boxes in the vicinity of the Stock Exchange and Mark Lane for dropping in acids. .Many cheques, share certificates and contracts were destroyed. There were similar outrages in the West End, at Finchley, Camberwell and- Islington, where four hundred letters were damaged. In some cases the acids were contained in corkless bottles and phials labelled “Votes for women.” The trouble was only discovered at the General Post Office by piles of letters breaking into flames. The officials quickly smothered them. Occasionally paraffin rags and lighted matches were put in the' post boxes. the staffs at the sorthig offices were hours in deciphering the damaged addresses. Ten letter-boxes in the centre of Birmingham were smothered with tar and varnish. There has been similar wholesale destruction in Nottingham, apparently as a reprisal for being outwitted in attempts to interfere with Mr As quith on Friday at llkstone. At Newcastle a hundred letters were damaged by ink being poured into the boxes.