"Let Them Die!"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 9 June 1914, Page 5

"Let Them Die!"

THE LONDON STANDARD SUMS UP THE SUFFRAGETTES. HUNGER-STRIKERS SHOULD BE GIVEN TnEIR CHANCE. By Cable—Press Association— Copyright Received 8, 10.10 p.m. London, June 8. The Standard, in a leading article headed, "Let them Die," says that the suffragettes are guilty of vandalism, arson, disloyalty, blasphemy and sacrilege, and urges the adoption of a short Bill indemnifying the Home Secretary and the prison governors in the event of hunger-strikers dying. The article adds: "It may be that after all they would not die." DISGRACEFUL SCENES AT BRTfiIPTON ORATORY. CHURCH SERVICE INTERRUPTED BY SUFFRAGETTES. LADIES SHOW PRACTICAL RESENTMENT. INTRUDERS THRASHED AND TRAMPLED. Received 8, 9.5 p.m. London, June 8. Extraordinary scenes occ-urred at Brompton Oratory. Twenty suffragettes chanted the 'Suffragette litany." One stood in the aisle, shouting, "For God's sake, stop forcible feeding." The congregation, women being prominent, fiercely attacked the suffragettes. - Some had their hats torn off, their dresses disordered, and hair streaming down their backs, while others were ■sMfeding from the mouth. But for the ■forgers' protection they would have been treated much worse. Eventually the vergers carried them out. Further scenes occurred outside . As • ® suffragette was entering a taxi-cab a lady, a member of the congregation, pull: ed her out and thrashed her. Another suffragette, whose teeth had foeen injured by a man's fist, lay at full length outside and refused to budge, so ihe people trampled across her. BRITISH PUBLIC TIRED OF THE SUFFRAGETTES. WOMAN THREATENS USE OF BOMBS. AND LYNCHING IS NARROWLY AVERTED. London, June 7. A suffragette speaker on Clapham -Common aroused hostility by veiled threats regarding the use of Jjombs. The meeting was broken up, and several narrow escapes of lynching occurred. Similar scenes were enacted on Hampstead Heath and Hyde Park. A suffragette was arrested for shouting daring the evening sermon in Westminster Cathdoral (Roman Catholic). A supposed burglar was arrested in the .servants' quarters at Buckingham. Palace. He visited several bedrooms, all occupied. - He alleged that he only intended to prove how easy it was to enter the Palace, despite the police and military precautions. The intruder at Buckingham Palace," who " was arrested for burglary, was ufl|)ry Pike, an engineer's fitter. The crowd broke up a suffragette meeting at Hornscy. The suffragettes also had a hostile reception at Hastings. The van was smashed, but the police dispersed their assailants. A suffragette was found concealed in Realing Post Ofliee. The police ejected several suffragettes y>'o eaused disturbances at Brompton Oratory. THE HUNGER-STRIKING FARCE. . HOW IT IS WORKED. London, June 7. The Public Prosecutor has started proceedings against Arthur Jiarnett, a solicitor's clerk, whose firm represented certain suffragettes, for conveying letters and drugs to Grace Roe, in Holloway Gaol. Evidence will show that the drugs were used to produce violent sickness after forcible feeding, so as to secure early liberation. THE PANKIIL'RST MARTYR POSE. " MAY NOT BE ALIVE." NO SOUND OK SORROW NOTED. i- .. London, June 7. Sylvia Pankliurst. in a speech in the East End of London, said that when Bhe saw Mr. A-.| nitli next Wednesday she would ask Hie deputation not only to plead, but to threaten him. She did not eare about herself. She asked them to carry on the movement, because it might happen that she would not be alive on Wednesday. She was determined that tjie East End people should settle the question on Wednesday. FOREIGN NATIONS AMAZED AT BRITAIN'S TOLERANCE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Juno 7. French papers are amazed at tin spectacle offered to the world by Bri tain in consequence of the suffragettes German papers are astonished that n< temedy can be found. American paperthink the gravest feature is the dangci of the movement spreading indefinitely