THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 306, 19 May 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

ATTEMPTED ARSON. OPPOSITION TO MILITANCY. AMERICA'S ATTITUDE. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Received 18, 5.5 p.m. London, May 17. The suffragettes fired a new house at Cambridge. Some injury was caused ih the Balfour Laboratory of Genetics adjoining. A canister with 121b of gunpowder was found in Dalkeith Park Chapel, with the fuse partially burned. While Christabel Pankhurst opposed the abandonment of militancy, some other leaders, realising that the extreme action had alienated public sympathy, recommend substituting a vigorous educational campaign. Anna Shaw, an American suffragist, in I ft speech in London, declared that England was the one great factor with which American suffragists had to contend. The women's conduct in England satisfied Americans that women were unsafe with the ballot. Consequently American women were being voted down. MORE BOMB OUTRAGES. WINDOW-SMASHING RESUMED. London, May 1(1. The newspaper Suffragette has been issued. Its contents are harmless. Miss Christabel Pankhurst. in an article, condemns the police for failure to -protect speakers, and the Government for its violent suppression of the paper. Bombs containing exploHves were discovered on a railway footbridge at Westhome Park, in the nost office at Wandsworth. the public library at. Rotherhithe, a hotel at Brentwood, a railway waitinafuroom at AvlesbuTV. and in a pew in iHolv Trinity Church. Hastings. I Plate glass windows in. fifty shons in | Norwich have been badly scratched.