A Reign of Terror

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 20, 11 June 1914, Page 5

A Reign of Terror

, BUILDINGS GUARDKD DAY AND NIGHT. SUFFRAGETTES PJCI.TED BV A CROvvD. \ Times and Sidney .v.m Services. Loudon, June 9. A suffragette seuu-ueud to seven days' imprisonment in connection with tlie recent raid on Westminster Abbey left the court shouting, "We have no King, but thank God v.o have Mrs. I'ankhurst." Sir Philip Burne Jones, interviewed, ■aid hunger-strikers should be allowed t* die after being otlVn-d plenty of food. Their nearest relative* should be "admitted to the cell*. Father Bernard Vaughan and many others expressed similar views. MAIDA VALE RAID.

London, June 9. All who were arrested in connection with the Maida Vale raid were committed for trial, except the girl Emmeline Hall. The police raided the new suffrajfttte headquarters in Tothill street, Westminster, and seized many documents.

Ivy Bon, w3io damaged pictures in tihe Dore Gallery, lias been sentenced to six months' imprisonment. ■y Bertha Ryfcnd has betii arrested for jAdJashing Rwmney's portrait of a Boy" '■lt the Art Gallery, Birmingham, with * chopper. 'Many churches and public-buildings throughout the country are guarded day and night

PELTED WITH TOMATOES.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 10, 5.25 p.m. London, June 10.

At a suffragist open-air meeting ait iiford the speakers were pelted with (tomatoes and other missile*, but escaped to the residence of a loea! leader. The oi'Owd smashed the windows with stones.