Where will it End?

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 39, 8 June 1914, Page 5

Where will it End?

MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES CONTINENTAL OPINION. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, June 6. French , papers are amazed .at tlie spectacles offered to the world by Britain in consequence of suffragettes. • The German press are astonished tliat no remedy can be found. American journalists say the gravest feature i s the danger of the movement spreading indefinitely. THE CROWDS TAKE A HAND. FURTHER DISTURBANCES. [United Pares Association.] (Received 8.45 a.m.) / London, June 7. A crowd broke up tlie suffragettes’ meeting at Hornsey. Suffragettes also had a hostile reception at Hastings, where their van was smashed. The police dispersed the assailants. ‘A suffragette was found concealed in Reading post office, and the police ejected her. Several suffragette disturbances occurred in Erompton oratory.

MARY BLOMFIELD’S ACTION. London, June 6. The names of the disturbers at Buckingham Palace were Misses Mary and Eleanor Blomfield, daughters of the late Sir Arthur Blomfield, and granddaughters of a former Bishop of London. Mary alone addressed the King. The Express states that, the Queen, commenting on Mary Blomfield’s action, said, “If .this were the worst thing the women had done, she mrght forgiven.” Three invitations to last night’s Court were cancelled. Lady Blomfield states that her daughters did not accompany her on Thursday, hut arrived after without her knowledge. Her ladyship did not. see the incident, which she and the whole family deplore.- *' HUNGER-STRIKING AND A * BOMB. “7 - < Freda Mahan been released, on account of . hunger-striking. A suffragette attempt to blow up Dudhope Castle, at Dundee, the famous Graham Claverhouse’s residence, failed, the fuse burning out.

A PAYING PROPOSITION; The character of the suffragette movemenfcaivass ;:; completely*, c altered, i Originally volunteers did the work, but now they run well-paid women, who in many cases give up other employment to join’ the militants because it pays better. AN OF INCENDIARISM. (Received 10.5 a.m.) s London, June 7. burned an untenanted house at High Wycombe, ONE- OF THEIR TRICKS. The Public Prosecutor has started proceedings against Arthur Barnett, a solicitor’s clerk, whose firm represented certain suffragettes, for conveying letters and drugs to Grace Roe in Holloway Gaol. The evidence will show that drugs were used to produce violent sick-

ness after forcible feeding to try and secure early liberation.