A PLAIN WARNING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 98, 2 May 1913, Page 5

A PLAIN WARNING.

HOW IT WAS ACCEPTED.

POLICE RAID AND ARRESTS

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

London, April 30

The police raided the Women’s Political Society’s headquarters at Kingsway, and effected several arrests.

WO3IEN ’S IN FLU EXCE,

New York, April 30

Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, in a letter to the Anti-Suffrage Association, deprecated female suffrage, pleading for the dignity of woman. The Cardinal said the powerful influence that was exercised by a ten sib le matron over her sons and her husband amounted to voting by proxy. Men rarely failed to follow the counsel derived from an inspired rather than a labored reasoning.

PETHICK LAWRENCE BANKRUPTCY.

London, April 30

The Government has filed a petition in bankruptcy against Pethick Lawrence for the law costs, which he refuses to pay, declining to be victimised.

THE KING SWAY RAID

London, May 1

Fifty detectives and twenty-four constables made a carefully planned raid and thorough search of the Kingsway suffragette quarters. Besides manuscripts, several columns of type awaiting publication were seized. PAPER TO BE SUPPRESSED. Mr McKenna, Home Secretary, speaking in the House of Commons, amid cheers, informed Mr Keir Hardie that they had raided the Union because they were charged with conspiracy and inciting to commite crimL nal offences. Prosecuting, ho explained, was a necessity for suppressing danger to citizens and traders. An enormous number of crimes had been committed under the Union’s auspices, involving damage to property, risk to life and limb, and vast inconvenience to the public. For months past almost daily these occurrences (had been repeated. Admonitions heretofore had been unavailing. Ho mow gave a plain warning that proceedings would he immediately ( taken against any person encouraging (suffrage tt ism by speeches, publishing or printing the Union’s literature, or subscribing to its funds. He added that the newspaper Suffragette must bo suppressed.

REDOUBLING EFFORTS.’ Paris, May 1. Miss Christabel Pankhurst, iff an interview, states that the raid would not make an atom of difference. “We anticipated the raid,’ she said, “and have made our plans to redouble our efforts.”