THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 23 May 1913, Page 6

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

THE GOVERNMENT’S INTENTION TO ENFORCE RESPECT FOR LAW. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, May 22. Mr R. McKenna (Home Secretary) at Cardiff; amid suffragist interruptions, repudiated any idea of concessions, And' also warned suffragettes against bringing trouble upon themselves, as ilie Government were determined to enforce respect for the law. CHARGES OF INCENDIARISM. (Received 9.5 5a.m.) London, May 22. Miriam Pratt, who was charged with incendiarism at Cambridge, was remanded, bail - being ref deed. She left Norwich telling her uncle, who was a policeman, that she was going to distribute leaflets for the Cambridgeshire election. When she returned her uncle discovered that her watch was missingy and learning that a watch had been found in Storeys Way, taxed his niece with having started the fire. A, ladder bound with flannelette and saturated with paraffin was found in another Cambridge-house. A timber yard »t Kilburn was fired, doing considerable damage. A MAN ARRESTED. . (Received 10.5 a.m.) London, May, 22. A store of the Westminister Wood Paving Company, Fulham, was burning for six hours, and a man was arrested. Suffragette literature was discovered.