The Mad Women.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 40, 9 June 1914, Page 5

The Mad Women.

KSGKING AND SCREAMING. CROWD TAKES A HAND. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.5 a.m.) London, June 8. A crowd attacked the suffragettes at Ilford and pursued them to the local leaders’ residence, where they smashed the windows. SCENE AT THE HORSE SHOW. (Received 10.20 a.m.) June 9. At the Royal Horse Show a suffragette attempted to enter the royal arena, and shrieked at the King. The police carried her out, and later three were carried out kicking and screaming. STUDENTS’ RETALIATION. Trinity College students raided the Dublin Suffragette offices and threw tlio furniture out of the windows. CHURCH DISTURBANCE. THE "SUFFRAGETTE LITANY.”

Extraordinary scenes occurred at Brompton Oratory. Twenty suffragettes chanted the “suffragette litany.” One stood in the aisle, shouting, “For God’s sake, stop forcible feeding.” The congregation, women being prominent, fiercely attacked the suffragettes. Some had their hats torn off, their dresses disordered, and hair streaming down their backs, while others were bleeding from the mouth. But for the vergers’ protection they would have been treated' much worse. Eventually the vergers carried them out. Further scenes occurred outside. As a suffragette was entering a taxi-cab a lady, a member of the congregation, pulled her out and thrashed her. Another suffragette, whose teeth had been injured by a man’s fist, lay at full length outside and refused to budge, so the people trampled across her.

“LET THEM DIE!” London, June 8. The Standard, in a loading article headed, .“Let them Die,” says that the suffragettes are guilty of vandalism, arsfin, disloyalty, blasphemy, and sacrilege, and urges the adoption of a short Bill indemnifying the Home Secretary and the prison governors in the event of hunger-strikers dying. The article adds: “It may be that after all they would not die.”