THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

FIGHTS AXI) LXTFRIMTTTOX. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, February 25. A suffragette meeting at the Pavilion Music Hall developed into a succession of fights with nude interrupters, who successfully resisted ejectment, Mrs Drummond, appealing for contributions for a lighting fund, said that they did not require gunpowder. One gift that had been promised was a quantity of paraffin. Another speaker declared that Mrs Pankhurst’s arrest would increase militancy a hundredfold. The suffragettes interrupted Mi John Burns when he was speaking at Battersea. Several were ejected. Mi Burns said that lie meant to breakdown this tyranny of organised blackguardism. It was in the interests ol the democracy that such despotism—which had desecrated and thrown back the women’s cause for years—should be terminated.

MRS. PAXKHURST LX COURT. “THU LAW A FARCE.” PELTED WITH TOMATOES AXD EGGS. (Received 9.15 a.rn.) London, February 25. There was a large crowd\ at Epsom Police Court awaiting Airs J’aukhurst, hisses largely preponderating >ver the suffragettes’ cheers. Mrs Pankhurst was remanded, bail being allowed. Tiie Chronicle says: “Lilian Lenten’s release makes the criminal law i farce.” A mob pelted suffragettes at Croydon with tomatoes and eggs, and smashed the windows of the suffragettes’ headquarters. Letters in Forest Hill pillar-box have been set on lire.