THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 65, 25 March 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

FURTHER OUTRAGES.

IMPRISONED LABOR DELE-

GATES,

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.' (United Press Association.) Suffragettes were refused admission to the Labor Conference at Manchester. They imprisoned the delegates for half an hour, chaining and padlocking the doors. Crowbars failed to break the chains which were finally sawed through.■ (Received 9.5 a.in.) London, March 24. Suffragettes paraffined a house, which was being constructed at Beckenham. A policeman disturbed the women, who fled, leaving literature behind. The fire brigade extinguished the flames. Greens at Sandwich have been much damaged. The post office is receiving a number of cartridges containing pinfire cartridges, so placed that a postmarking blow will explode them.

SYLVIA PANKHURST’S PLIGHT. London, March 22. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst lias been released. She refused to take food. Sylvia Pankhurst recently wrote to her mother: “I am fighting, fighting, fighting. They have four to six wardresses and two doctors twice daily to prise open my mouth, but 1 resist all the time. My gums are always bleeding. LADY WHITE’S HOUSE. London, March 23. A public movement has been started to rebuild Lady White’s house. HECKLING KEIR HARDIE. (Received 8.20 a.m.) London, March 24. Suffragettes continuously interrupted Mr Keir Hardie’s address to the independent Labourites at Manchester. They characterised him as a miserable coward, who betrayed the women’s cause.

Many were ejected. Mr Keir Harclio advocated the release of the hunger strikers, and said there would be more now for liberty, but for the mad burning of White’s house, which prevented the authorities from appearing to yield to terrorism.

Addressing a meeting in London. Miss Annie Kenney, one of the suffragette leaders, declared that mili tancy was the cheapest form of agitation. It cost hundreds of pound> to organise a constitutional meeting, but only a few pence to buy a hammer with which to smash windows. The Dutch Women’s Suffrage Board have written to the English militants' protesting against the tactics which they have been adopting, and which are only injuring the cause., A new movement against the suffragettes has been started at Wimbledon. It is known as the Retalliation League, the object of the members, of whoa there are 700, being to attack the residences and other property of th( suffragettes