THE SUFFRAGETTES.
A GIGANTIC BLUFF. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, London, May 21. A crowd attacked the headquarters'of the. non-militant suffragettes at Hastings and mobbed women who were leaving the meeting, throwing eggs and Hour. The crowd then visited an hotel, where it was believed prominent suffragettes were lodged, and threw stones through the windows.
The Standard declares that the suffragette statements as to their huge funds is a gigantic bluff. The cause, will soon be bankrupt. Of the £15,000 collected at the Albert Hall, £14,200 consisted of dummy cheques and promises. A bomb exploded in the west dome of the Edinburgh Royal Observatory, made a large liole in the second door, and damaged the. instruments.
A DANGEROUS EXPLOSIVE,
London, May 21. The bomb which exploded in Edinburgh Observatory contained several pounds of gunpowder in an earthenware jar. ft was fired by a fuse thirty feet long. Fragments were embedded in the wall, and bloodstains were found, indicating that one of the perpetrators had been injured by the glass, which had been blown for fiftv yards.
Miriam Pratt, aged twenty-three years, a school teacher, has been arrested for incendiarism at Cambridge.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 310, 23 May 1913, Page 5
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189THE SUFFRAGETTES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 310, 23 May 1913, Page 5
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