THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 24 February 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

FURTHER RIOTING. A HOT TIME FOR MRS PANKHURST. Loudon, February 22. Thfee letter-box outrages occurred at Lewisham. A postman was slightly burned.

At Kempton Park Racecourse the ladies’ waiting rooms adjoining >me Royal pavilion have been burned. The brigade speedily extinguished the flames. The suffragettes are suspected. There were disorderly scenes at a women’s suffrage meeting at Edmonton. The police broke up the meeting and cleared the building.

Mrs Pankhurst addressed a crowded meeting at Chelsea Town Hall. There was a large force of police outside. Mrs Pankhurst had a mixed reception. She made a hysterical speech, and declared that women would do their utmost to safeguard human life, but meant to do everything necessary to settle the status of women once and for all. She defied the Government to arrest her. It was wrong that women who committed offences should be sent to prison while she, who incited them, was free. “How, :” she asked, “is the Government going to end it?” A voice: Put you in the Zoo. There was much uproar and an angry demonstration outside the hall. Hundreds of actions are pending against Mrs Pankhurst. KIDNAPPING THE CABINET. The Standard states that the suffragettes are plotting to kidnap members of the Cabinet, and adds that the Government is taking special precautions to prevent this. Detectives are constantly attendant on prominent members of the Cabinet. Sir Robert Anderson, formerly head of the Criminal Investigation Department, suggests a Bill declaring win-dow-smashers criminal lunatics, liable to be sent to asylums. Precautions are being taken to guard tlio Oxford eights’ boat at Putney against the suffragettes. ATTACKING TELEGRAPH WIRES. COUNTER SUG G ESTJON. (Received 8.20 a.m.) London, February 20. Suffragettes cut a large number of telegraph wires near Newcastle. The Observer suggests that all political©; should agree not to support any Suffragette Bill while militancy continues. cash, balance arranged; now let at Us a week. The early bird catches the worm, so aply sharp. C. and E. Jackson, Broadway, Stratford.