VOTES FOR WOMEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 75, 5 April 1913, Page 5

VOTES FOR WOMEN.

NEW FRANCHISE BILL.

affecting six million WOMEN.

[By Electric Telegkai’H— Coi’ymum] [United Press Association j (Received 8.0 a.m.) , London, April 4. Sir John Simons states that the Liberal Committee has prepared a BUI enfranchising six million women and entitling all over twenty-five years of age to bo registered if they possess the household qualifications .iniilar to men; it also gives a vote to the wife of every man who has a householder qualification. Mr Dickinson (St. Pancras North) introduced tho Bill yesterday.

“IKE ONLY WAY.”

SCENE AT THE PANKHURST TRIAL. Loudon, April 4. In concluding her speech, Mrs Pankhurst declared that she would fight and fight. She described the scenes at tho forcible feeding which takes place twice a day in prison The woman [resists overwhelming force and fights until she is fastened to a bed.

Mrs Pankhurst ended by saying exultantly; “I am not afraid of punishment. I welcome it, because it is the only way.”

The jury made a strong recommendation to mercy. The Court was crowded with women, and the sentence was greeted with a wild outburst of cries, hisses and waving ol handkerchiefs, which continued until the Court was cleared'. DAMAGING PICTURES. London, April 4. Suffragettes entered the Manchester Art Gallery and smashed the glass of thirteen pictures. Watts’s “Evening Prayer” was damaged with a hammer. Three arrests were made. SUFFRAGETTES USE EXPLOSIVES. (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, April 4. Suffragettes nearly succeeded in blowing up the railway station at Oxted, and partly wrecked an empty train with explosives near Stockport. I I ■ _j i A DASTARDLY AFFAIR. (Received 10.5 a.m.) London, April 4. The explosion at Oxted blew out the walls.,;. ;4 travelling basket was found containing a tin of petrol and an unexploded clock bomb timed for three o’clock in the morning. The fuse had fired, but it had not ignited the petrol. The perpetrators dropped a nickel plated pistol outside the station. Each of the seventeen stationary empty carriages at Stockport contained, Up explosive gas cylinder. One carriage saturated with paraffin was wrecked and fell over the embankment and prevented the fin spreading. “DOING IT HARD.” Isabel Pankhurst was sentenced t< six months’ hard labor for windowsmashing at Holborn.