WOMEN’S FRANCHISE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 27, 31 January 1913, Page 5

WOMEN’S FRANCHISE.

THE WOMEN S A OLE. SUFFRAGETTES Bl S,V AGAIN. -By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London January 29. Mrs Despard :cc'o;cu imp,a - .ument in preference to fine o! -,os. The Home Office. Treasury, Admiialty and Local Government heard office windows were broken. Then the wreckers destroyed the 'huge plateglass windows of the Hamburg-Ame-rika shipping office. Mrs Pankhurst, addressing a suffragette meeting, declared that the whole plot, even to the Speaker’s ruling, had been decided on long ago. Mr Lloyd George’s refusal to receive a deputation confirmed the belief that ho was associated with his colleagues in their crime towards the women. The whole business was a trick of the Cabinet, who were all anti-suffragists at heart Mrs Drummond, who refused to pay her fine, on being sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment in the second mean the first division. There will be a hunger strike.” Several others received similar sentences.

Suffragettes smashed windows in Regent and Oxford Streets, Charing Cross and other centres. Three re-

male and one male suffragette supporting Mrs Despard were sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment. Grace Burbidge was endeavouring to place phosphorous in a letter-box when the phosphorous dropped on her arm, burning her. Miss Burbidge was medically treated and remanded.

A suffragette smashed another window, valued at £l5O, in the HamburgAmerica Company’s office.

An unknown person having paid her fine, Mrs Despard has been released. The Women’s Labour League Conference passed a resolution in favour of women’s franchise, preventing war by a general strike, and granting divorce where mutual affection and respect had been destroyed. London, January 30.

Several suffragettes attempted to enter the hall at Levin where the Premier was speaking. Ore was arrested for throwing pepper in a constab e’s face.

New York, January 30

The suffragettes are planning a walk to Washington with a message to the White House demanding votes. London, January 30.

Two hundred packets were damaged in the Vere Street Post Office. A packet addressed to Mr Lloyd George burst into flames when exposed to the air. Pillar-box outrages have occurred in many districts. A suffragette has been arrested for breaking the Colonial Office window.

Four letter-boxes at York contained letters to Mr Asquith, in which,there were glass tubes of liquid which ignited on exposure to the air.