WHOLESALE WINDOW SMASHING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 March 1912, Page 5

WHOLESALE WINDOW SMASHING

SUFFRAGETTES AGAIN AT LARGE. TAKING A LEAF FROM THE COLLIERS' BOOK. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 3, 5.5 p.m. London, March 2. The suffragists made a raid on Saturday in London. It was quite unexpected. Hundreds sallied out, carrying large muffs concealing hammers. 'At a preconcerted signal they smashed a hundred windows from the Strand to Bond street. There were 121 arrests, including Miss Pankhurst, who broke the Premier's windows. After smashing the windows Miss Pankhurst wrenched her arm free from the constable and broke a window of the Home Office. Meanwhile othsr women broke the Colonial Office window. Various parties made a rapid descent on private premises and large stores at different points, and wantonly wrecked windows, including Stewart Dawson's, the Canadian-Pacific Company's, the Kodak Comany's, the Civil Service Stores', Duveen Bros', Liberty's, and all the leading drapers? and furniture warehouses in Oxford street, as well as the Post Offices' in Regent street and Charing Cross. The women arrived in fashionable vehicles, and entered the shops ostensibly to make purchases, and then suddenly smashed the windows of rows of shops in Bond street. Carpenters have been employe;! through the night barricading the broken fronts. It is estimated' that damage amounting to £4OOO was caused Christabel Pankhurst stated that as the miners were getting legislation because they made themselves a nuisance, the women were incited to act similarly.