THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 300, 12 May 1913, Page 3

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

_ ■ '■';' -«»■' .MRS. PANKHURST'S LICENSE. AUTHORITIES'REVOKE IT. WARRANT'ISSUED FOR REARREST. ■■'■ April 30. The Home Office 1 tcWiay revoked the license on which Mrs. Pankhurst was released, because of her'failure to comi ply with its conditions.^ A warrant Jiaving.'b'eeri issued for her re-arrest, Superintendent! Quinn and the Medical Inspector of' Prisons went to the militant leader's house in Norfolk Square at noon. : A crowd of suffragettes that gathered outside vigorously boo-hooed the officers, and, taking up -a stantl 1 ih front of the doorway, prepared to dispute their right to enter. The superintendent and the inspector, however, ma^e'their'way through the women anil forced an entry into the house. It was subsequently 1 reported that the condition of Mrs. Pankhurst was such that it would be inadvisable to remove her, and the execution of the warrant was therefore deferred. "FEMALE HOOLIGANS." WOMEN'S MALICIOUS MONKEY TRICKS. London, April 30. Sir A. Conan Doyle fiercely denounc- • ed the suffragettes at a meeting at ' which he spoke in Wells, Somerset, yesterday morning. "It is necessary," said the famous author, 'to differentiate between the honest, constitutional suffragettes and those female hooligans. But even more' contemptible is that class of people who find them the maans with which to cany out their malicious monkey tricks. "It would seam that the only tiling the militants can do in the way of meanness ; s to blow up a blind man and ! his dog. They imagine that in a proud | otd nation like ours they can move men | by an appeal to their fears to do someting which their knowledge tells them is not right. "We can proudly boast that in our country are some of the best women in the world, but T would not be honest if T did not admit that there were also some of the worst, who had let down the fair name and dignity of English womanhood."

Sir Conan Doyle prophesied that the right to vote would not come to the women for a generation.