WOMEN’S FRANCHISE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 45, 21 February 1913, Page 5

WOMEN’S FRANCHISE.

MRS PANKHURST’S THREATS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.' (United Press Association.) London, February 20. The wrecked house cost £2OOO, and it was intended for Lloyd George’s week-end golfing cottage. As it was unfinished, the less falls on the contractors. The servants’ wing was wrecked. The women, in mistake, placed the bombs in the upper rooms; otherwise the walls would have collapsed. Twelve workmen arrived twenty minutes after the explosion. If the candle had been an inch longer their lives would have been endangered. Mr Winston Churchill, Sir Rufus Isaacs and Mr McKenna, members of the Walton Golf Club, and a large staff of men had been patrolling the heath day, and night. Mrs Pankhurst, speaking at Cardiff, amid uproar, admitted that women blew up the Chancellor, because they wanted to wake him up while an army of men were guarding the golf links, of men were guarding the golf links. The successful piercing of this guerJla was carried out. She accreted the responsibility. “If arrested, 1 ’ she said •T shall hunger strike. They cannot torture me very Ihng, and must lei mo ell- <)•’ go. If 1 drop out a hundred more will lake my plat e.” OUTRAGE AT KEW GARDENS. The tea rooms at Kew Gardens have been burned down. dwo u omen have been arrested. “MARTYRDOM FAR TOO CHEAP. ’ (Received 8.0 a.in.) London, February 20. The Daily Chronicle says . “Tiic comfort of a modern humanised prison made political martyrdom far too cheap. Every outrage merely replenished the suffragette .societies’ coffers, and monetary penalties should be exacted.” FURTHER BAD REPORTS. DEFYING THE LAW. “SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.” (Received 9.20 a.m. ) London, February 20. Paraffined cotton wads were fount near Kew Gardens in a tea house. The police at 4 o’clock chased am captured Joyce Locke and Lilian Len ton, young well-dressed women. Nea the cricket ground, a portmanteau ccn taining a saw, hammer, and paraffin ed tow were dropped by the fugitives Locke, at the Richmond Police Court threatened to hunger-strike if not al lowed bail. The Magistrate replied “We are not to be frightened by in timidation.” Locke then threw a book at the Magistrate, and was eject ed, struggling violently. Both were remanded in custody. The damage is estimated at £IOOO Sir George Riddell, owner of Mi Lloyd George’s house, is a keen suffragist. The Star says: “The State musf make a stand against the bomb outrages. Already a grave disparity exists between suffragists and other prisoners. Two thousand letters in twenty pil lar boxes were damaged in Edinburgh. Fires in the chief branch of tin Leith sorting office and Northampton were extinguished.