Women's Franchise

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 20 April 1914, Page 5

Women's Franchise

DESTRUCTIVE SUFFRAGETTES. A PAVILION DESTROYED. London, Apirl 17, A fire, due to a suffragette bomb, destroyed the paviJion on the Britannia pier at Great Yarmouth. Tilt damage amounted to £15,000. A REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, April 1). There has been an unexplained series of fires. The boml) at Yarmouth was heard a mile from the pier. The fire brigade was unable to extinguish the burning timber, and after an hour and .i-half only the iron framework of the pavilion remained. A quantity of suffragette literature was found round bhe pier. The Empire Music Hall at Kingston-on-Thames was burnt, the damage being £3OOO. The grandstand at Kempton Park racecourse was set on fire, and narrowly escaped destruction. A Penzance picture palace and skating rink have been burned down, causing damage to the extent of several thousand pounds. Mrs. Pankhurst threatens to lhave a suffragist procession to Buckingham Balace on May 21, aided by Sylvia's' East End Brigade. The militants threaten to spoil the London season by annoying the bestknown hostesses.

UNPOPULAR AMONG TEACHERS. A FRANTIC SCENE. London, April 18. Pandemonium reigned at the teachers' conference on the announcement of the result of the ballot showing that a resolution of sympathy with the suffragettes had been defeated by sixteen thousand votes, the conference again determining that the subject was outside its scope. Miss Frond declared that the conference had made the-.suffragettes members feel like serfs and muzzled persons. Apparently they did nat want to face men and women with backbone and courage. Miss Hewitt said the conference was sitting on the safety-valve. It ought not to go out to the civilised world that the union had decided that the enfrancliisemen't of two-thirds of its members Fas a subject worthy of discussion.

A DESTRUCTIVE OUTRAGE AT BELFAST. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Received 19, 5.5 p.m, London, April IS. The suffragettes burned the Belfast Corporations Bellevue gardens and tearooms.