THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 243, 4 March 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

I TURNING OF THE WORM. By Cable—Press Association -Copyright. London, March 2. A large crowd in Shaftesbury avenue, chiefly recruited from the Solio district, attacked two suffragettes who were playing a barrel organ oil behalf of the women's funds. They overturned and smashed the oriran. The police eventually rescued the women. RAILWAY STATION WRECKED. London, March 2. There was an explosion in the parcels office at the South-Western Railway Station at Devonport. William Gay, a clerk, was seriously injured, and the office wrecked. A portion of a tin was found. The suffragettes are suspected of having caused the explosion. A TIOAX DENIED. Received 3, 5.0.) p.m. Pontypool, March 3. The police deny that they were hoaxed. They state that the plaenrds were issued in error. SENSATIONAL RIOTING. Received 3, 10.20 p.m. London, March 3. Eight thousand attended a suffragette meeting at Hyde Park. A section of the crowd pelted Mrs. Drummond with clods of earth. Five thousand people at Wimbledon harrassed the .speakers with motor horns and cries of "Duck them!" A hand of youths rushed the platform and overpowered the police. There was wild confusion for half an hour. The police rescued the suffragettes.