THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 28 April 1913, Page 8

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

A HARMLESS BOMB. [By [United Press Association.l London, April 26. The bom!) placed on the steps of Lloyds’ Bank was discovered to lie harmless. MRS DESPAR I) RELEASED. London, April 26. Mrs Despard and two other suffragettes imprisoned for obstructing in Trafalgar Square, have been released. Someone paid their fines. FIRING A TRAIN. London, April 27. Tiie suffragettes fired a train on a siding at Teddington. Three compart-ments-were burnt out before the fire brigade extinguished the flames. A story is being told in London of a suffragette who learned the private telephone number of King George and rang him up. The King happened I to bo in his writing-room when the boll tinkled and be answered it himself. Accounts differ as to King George’s language when he discovered to whom he' was talking. The J suffragette herself says that she was j just able to call out, “We want votes! for t” when the King said, “I cannot talk to you,” and rang off. An j attendant at the Palace tolls that! the King was furious. He summoned his equerry and said : “Some infernal | woman lias given away the private

royal, call number.” Another stop is that the King took it as a joke but said he must get a new telephone number. The tale has little appear ance of truth, but possibly it heap some more or less distant relation t( fact. Queen Mary is said to >e : keen opponent of woman suffrage mainly because she objects to tin tactics of the militant suffragettes.