THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 292, 2 May 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

POLICE RAIDS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, April 30. The police raided the Women's Political Union headquarters in. Kingsway. Several women were arrested. A hundred police made the raid. They arrested Mrs. Drummond and Miss Annie Kennedy, who were charged with making inflammatory speeches, publishing the newspaper Suffragette, and collecting money for criminal objects. They were remanded, and bail was refused. Anti-suffragists looted the offices of the Women's Political Union at Newcastle at night. They broke open the desks and destroyed documents.

THE DIGNITY OP WOMAN. New York, April 30. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, in a letter to the Anti-Suffrage Association, deprecated female suffrage. Pleading for the dignity of woman, he said that the powerful influence exercised by a sensible matron over her sons and husband amounted to voting by proxy. Men rarely failed to follow the counsel derived from inspired, rather than lauored, reasoning.

AN OBDURATE LAWYER. London, April 30. The Government has filed a petition in bankruptcy against Mr. Pethick Lawrence, the suffragist, for law costs, which he refuses to pay, declining to be victimised.

THE KINGSWAY RAID. GOVERNMENT TAKES A FIRM STAND. SUFFRAGETTES DEFIANT. Received 1, 11.20 p.m. London, May 1. Fifty detectives and twenty-four eonstables made a carefully planned raid and thorough search of the Kingsway Suffragette quarters. Besides manuscripts; several columns of type awaiting publication .were seized. ,• Mr. McKenna, Home Secretary, speaking in the , House of Commons, amid cheers, informed Mr. Keir Ilardie that they had raided the Union because .they were charged with conspiracy and inciting to commit criminal offences. Prosecuting, he explained, was a necessity for suppressing danger to citizens and traders. An enormous number of crimes had been committed under the Union's auspices, involving damage to property, fisk to life and limb, and vast inconvenience to the public. For months past almost daily these occurrences lipid been repeated. Admonitions heretofore had been unavailing. He now gave a plain warning that proceedings would be immediately taken against any person encouraging Biiffragettism by speeches, publishing or printing the Union's literature, or subscribing to its funds. He added that the newspaper Suffragette must be suppressed. Paris, May 1.

Miss Christabel Pankhurst, in an in l tervie-y, states that the raid would not make an atom of difference. "We anticipated the raid," she said, "and have •made our plans to redouble our efforts."'