WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 8 May 1913, Page 5

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

DEBATE IH THE COMMONS.

THE CABINET DIVIDED

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The House of Commons was crowded owing to the suffrage debate, which is characterised as a conflict between party friends on both sides. Mr Asquith declared that the social structure would not be strengthened by granting women a vote. He regretted the difference with his colleagues. If they had hinted at a change of leadership he was prepared to resign, but the hint had not been given.

Sir E. Gray emphasised Mr Asquith’s fairness to his colleagues who favored the Suffrage Bill, and the supporters of the suffrage had reason to deplore the unconsidered crimirtal conduct of the militant few.

Sir E. Grey, Mr Lloyd George, Mr A. Birrell, Mr S. Buxton, Mr Rumanian and Mr F. D. Acland voted for the Bill, and Mr Asquith, Mr' McKenna, Mr L. V. Harcourt and Colonel Seely against it. A majority of the Nationalists opposed it. There were a number of abstentions on both sides, and 22 pairs.

DISCOVERY OF BOMBS

London, May 7

A watchman discovered an unignited bomb at the rear of the altar in Saint Paul’s Cathedral. Another was discovered in a. doorway in Bouverie Street. A policeman conveyed it to the Daily News office and immersed ; t in water.

REASON OF THE SETBACK

(Received 9.25 a.m.) London, May 7

The fact that the women’s suffrage movement is in a worse position than a year ago is ascribed by the newspapers as being largely duo to militancy.

THE teeth of public opinion

The Westminster Gazette states that Parliament felt that if it passed Mr Dickenson’s Bill, it would be acting in the teeth of public opinion. Yesterday’s majority against the Bill included many members who favor a small number of women voters, but not six million forthwith.

MYSTERY OF ST. PAUL’S BOMB

(Received 10 a.m.) London, May 7. The two bombs which were discovered contained detonators, clockwork, screws, bolts, and explosives. The ticking of the clockwork in the bomb at Saint Paul’s Cathedral attracted the verger’s notice. How it was placed in the choir is a mystery. PROVED AN ALIBI. Ada Ward, who was arrested in connection with the bomb at the Grand Hotel, was discharged, the police being satisfied in regard to her alibi. INCENDIARISM OUTRAGES.

(Received 10.20 a.m.) London, May 7

Suffragettes burnt the cricket pavillion at Fulham, and also set fire to an unoccupied house at Finchley, and attempted to burn two bungalows at Boxhill.

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

London, May 7

The bomb found in St. Paul’s was the size of a pound mustard tin. Its explosion would have wrecked the choir, marble reredo®, and the Oreadling Gibbons carving. The police describe the bomb as small, but fiendishly powerful.