THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 53, 20 July 1912, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

STRENUOUS PROTESTS. FIRE AND THE AXE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 20, 12.20 a.m. London, July 19. Mr. Asquith's route while journeying to Ireland, accompanied by his family, was altered from Ens ton to Paddington Station, owing to the suffragettes planning an attack. He received a great ovation at Dublin. There was a torchlight procession., and Mr. Asquiili rode beside Mr. Redmond in a carriage, his wife scattering flowers among the crowd. A suffragette was arrested for throwing a hatchet at Mr. Asquith, which grazed Mr. Redmond's ear, drawing blood. At the close of the performance at the Theatre Royal a young woman named Evans poured oil and fired a curtain in a box. Some youths extinguished the flames. Evans was arrested. Two English suffragettes handed a statement to the Irish Times that they had come to Ireland full of a sense of responsibility. They accepted Mr. Hobhouse's challenge by burning not an English castle, Lilt a Dublin theatre. White Mr. McKenna was laying the foundation stone of Caerleon Training. College a suflragfftte behind him seized and j-.hook him violently.