More Vandalism.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 28, 25 May 1914, Page 5

More Vandalism.

MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES.

THE AUTHORITIES BUSY.

[Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright]

£ United Aosooiattov 1

London, May 23

The National Gallery and the Wallace collection are closed indefinitely. The documents found at Maida Vale included plans of a country house, and several coils of inflammable cord. Annie Henry interviewed the Primate and intimated her intention of remaining at Lambeth .Palace. Finally she was arrested under the Cat and Mouse Act.

A matinee performance of "The Silver King" at His Majesty's Theatre realised £1691 on behalf of King George's Pension Fund for actors and actresses.

Besides the suffragettes' attempt to harangue, leaflets were showered from the stalls past the front of the Royal box. Their Majesties were apparently unmoved throughout, but the audience, of which two-thirds were women, exhibited intense indignation.

There wore disturbances in most of the police courts where the suffragettes wore being charged. Pandemonium reigned, especially at Bow Street, where sixty-five struggled and yelled. Male and female sympathisers joined in the uproar. Blows were exchanged with the police before the court was cleared.

A hatless suffragette threw a boot, which the Magistrate, Mr Dickenson, deftly caught with his left hand. Suffragettes placed bombs' alongside the pipes conveying water from Loch Katrine to Glasgow, but the fuse burned out before reaching the detonator. An explosion would have cut off half Glasgow's water supply. A suffragette at Edinburgh gashed Laverey's picture of the King in. the Scottish Academy. She was arrested.

- Two suffragettes smashed a mummy case in the British Museum, but the contents were unharmed. One, Wheeler, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and the others to a month. The police raided and occupied the Women's Political Union offices, and arrested Grace Rea, general secretary, who was charged with conspiring with Nellie Hall to damage property. PRECAUTIONS FOR PROTECTION OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. (Received 9.15 a.m.) London, May 24. The British Museum has een closed against women except by ticket.