THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 40, 23 June 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

DESTROYING A CANAL

Loudon, June 22

Suffragettes exploded a bomb, which made a cavity almost penetrating the canal embankment at Yardley Wood, Birmingham. Had the attempt been successful, eleven miles of water would have been emptied into the valley, devastating the crops, and great Joss of life would have been inevitable.

THE ASCOT OUTRAGE

AN ECCENTRIC INDIVIDUAL

London, June 21

Hewitt’s condition is critical. In 1911 Hewitt relinquished his patrimony in favor of his younger brother, and worked with the laborers on his father’s estate. He was always regarded as eccentric'.

INCENDIARISM. *

(Received 9.25 a.m.) London, Juno 22

Suffragettes burnt the Gatty Marine Laboratory at St, Andrew’s University, doing £SOOO damage.

MILITANCY RESENTED. -

Budapest, June 22,

Mrs Despard, the Cobdens, and Mrs Anderson, were permitted to address the Suffrage Congress. They complained of exclusion of their party, and commented upon the narrowness of the national union. Mrs Fawcett replied that the union was not responsible for their exclusion. The President declined to permit the discussion of national conflicts, the decision being cheered by the non-militants, who resented the militants’ speeches as breaches of hospitality.

EFFECTIVE HUNGER STRIKING

(Recived 10.20 a.m.) London, June 22

Laura Lennox, who was sentenced on the 17th inst. in connection with the suffragette conspiriacy, has been released owing to hunger striking. ELUDING THE POLICE. T|ie police are vainly searching for Lilian Lenton, who escaped, it is believed, disguised as a vanhoy, though several detectives had been watching the house day and night. ACTS OF INCENDIARISM. Thirty cartridges, together with oiled rags and burning paper, were discovered in St. John’s Church, South End. They were extinguished without damage. The east wing of the Gatty laboratory was burnt down. A window pane was covered with soft soap. A dozen tins of petroleum were discovered in the building. Many valuable scientific drawings were destroyed, MOBS RETALIATE. Several thousand people at Camborne mobbed suffragettes who wore marching from Land’s End to London and pelted them with eggs. The suffragettes took refuge in an hotel, and escaped by the hack door in disguise. {

A largo crowd at Blyth mobbed two suffragette speakers. The police rescued them with difficulty.