“OBEY.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 77, 8 April 1913, Page 5

“OBEY.”

HUSBANDS AND W!V£S.

A NEW DEMAND

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

London, April 7

Chatsworth House, Haddon Hall and many other mansions are being specially guarded day and night. The suffragettes made an abortive •attempt to burn down the Dundee Tennis Club’s pavilions. The Women’s Spiritual Militancy League has issued a manifesto, demanding that the Government shall introduce a Bill revising the marriage service, removing the humiliations placed on women. It urges the omission of the word “obey” in the giving away ceremony, also that the exhortation, “Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands,’ should be accompanied by'“’Husbands, submit yourselves to your wives.” DISTURBING THE SUFFEAGETTE3 London, April 7. Demonstrations prevented suffragette meetings in Hyde Park and Hampstehd Heath and at Wimbledon. Seven men were arrested lor throwing orange peel and turf at the speakers. POSTING PHIALS IN PACKAGES. (Received .8.50 a.m.) London, April 7. Wholesale pillar-box outrages occurred at Glasgow to-day. Phials of black and red liquids were enclosed in packages addressed “Asquith Company, Medical Torturers.” No arrest has been made. INCENDIARISM RIFE.

Suffragettes attempted to burn grandstands at Cardiff, but were disturbed and arrested. A large modern unoccupied mansion at Norwich was entirely destroyed. Suffragettes of the district refuse to disclaim responsibility. MRS. PANKHURST’S DIE’l (Received 10.0 a.m.) London, April 7. Mrs Pankhurst has tasted only water since' Thursday. MORE OUTBREAKS. The suffragettes, using petroleum, set lire to an untenanted house at Pottersbar, but the outbreak was extinguished. (