"FIGHT ON."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 16 June 1913, Page 5

"FIGHT ON."

THE DAVISON FUNERAL.

A GORGEOUS PROCESSION

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyriciit] [United Press Association.] (Recieved 9.35 a.m.)

London, June 15

Two thousand delegate suffragettes attended Miss Davison's funeral at Morpeth.

(Received 9.20 a.m.)

London, June 15

Three thousand women participated in the funeral procession through London.

As Mrs Pankhurst was leaving her flat to attend, she was re-arrested and conveyed to Holloway prison. "SHE DIED FOR WOMEN."

Eight white-robed suffragettes, with black sashes and armlets at Epsom, escorted to the station Miss Davison's body, which Avas enshrouded in suffragette colors. The coffin was lined with cashmere and laden with plate, inscribed with deceased's iast message: "Fight on! God will give us the victory!" A purple pall, with broad arrows embroidered on each side, bore a heart-shaped wreath of laurel, cr>d inscribed : "She died for women."

Captain Davison, deceased's brother, was' the chief mourner.

THE WREATHS AND FLOWERS

The piocession formed up on the outside of Victoria Station, and divided into eleven sections, each with a band and a banner-bearer. Wreaths and flowers filled six coaches. Groups of processionists in white carried lilies ; those dressed in black carried irises; and those in purple carried laurel wreaths. Other tributes included a tall fairhaired woman dressed in white carrying aloft a gilded cross in red. THE CORTEGE. In the cortege were bands playing funeral inarches. Two carirages, hidden with white flowers, preceded the open hearse, which was escorted on either side by a guard of honor with lilies. Then followed the relations, and Mrs Kenney, Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, Mrs Despard, many prominent suffrgists and others including Mr Ben Tillett and many hunger strikers, as well as several surpuced clergymen, numerous Society ladies, shop girls, factory hands, nurses in uniforms, women doctors, and graduates in academic gowns. Enormous respectful crowds lined the sunlit streets throughout the route. Archbishop Escreet conducted the service at Saint George, Bloomsbury, and thence at King's Cross, where the body was entombed. THE HURST PARK OUTBREAK (Received 9.40 a.m.) Kitty, Marion, and Clara Given were further remanded on the charge of setting fire to the Hurst Park pavilion. Evidence was given that they wore seen prior to the fire.

ATTEMPTED ARSON

London, June 15,

A suffragette attempted to fire the Eden Parle station, at Beekenham, on Saturday. A kerosene bomb was left to explode.

A SECOND MRS PANKHURST

Adelaide, June 1o

A woman broke up the cadet parade by forciifig herself into the ranks and loudly exhorting the boys not to participate. When the instructor asked her to leave she refused, declaring that she was a second Mrs Pankhurst, and intended to keep up the protest against tyranny.