Hired Degenerates

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 15 June 1914, Page 5

Hired Degenerates

A SAD STORY. DRINK, DRUGS A.\D IMMORALITY. THE SECRET OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT.

THEIR SEX AGAINST THEM.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, June 12. At the inquest 011 Laura Graj, formerly a militant suffragette, witnesses described her as not quite normal, but of a self-sacrificing nature. The coroner traced tlie girl's downfall to over-excitement due to her connection with militancy. Her history was subsequently one of drink, drugs and immorality. The verdict was suicide with veronal. At the meeting of the Women's Social and Political League a speaker referred to interviews of the Premier's and Mr. McKenna's with the King and asked if they were to believe that the King's hand was behind ttie acts of repression. The mention of the King's name was received with hisses and hooting. Mr. .McKenna, in the House of Commons, said the Kings refusal to receive a deputation was thoroughly constitutional, and was no excuse for suffragette insults. The police raided the new suffragette headquarters in Camden Hill Square and made an. important seizure of papers. The National (Jnion of Women's' Suffrage Societies and the Unionist Women's Franchise Association have is- j sued a joint manifesto protesting against lawless violence, arson, destruction and vandalism by a small section of women. The suffragettes fired Ohipstead Church. The lire was extinguishedwith small damage. Westminster Auoey has been reopened.

ANOTHER CHURCH AFIRE. TROUBLE IN THE EAST END. MILITANTS GET A BAD HANDLING. Received 13, 5.5 p.m.

London, June 13. The bomb found in the Abbey was more dangerous than any previously used. It was suspended by a loop of* string to the back of the Coronation chair. It contained a chlorate explosive and largo iron nuts. These and fragments of the easing were found fifty feet away, where they damaged the adjoining roof.

Cyclists" at two o'clock in the morning found the door of Chipstead Church burning fiercely, and inflammables piled a l , two other doors.

Organised efforts to deliver speeches and scatter literature at East End theatres led to prompt ejections of suffragettes. One at the N'ew Theatre was roughly handled, the attendants rescuing three. A man at His Majesty's Theatre gagged them with handkerchiefs and carried them into the streets. Ladies in the audiences were noticeably hostile

to the suffragette action. Tumultuous scenes occurred at Southsea. Three thousand assembled on the pier to hear addresses from Nina Boyle and other advanced militants. Their flag was torn to shreds. .Bluejackets drew the trolley, whereon the speakers stood, across the common, where it was overturned. Eventually the police rescued the suffragettes. | The puhlic is now excluded from the | upper part of St. Paul's.

Mrs. Fawcett, addressing the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, strongly condemned the militants' destruction of historic monuments. The Union has issued a manifesto describing the militant methods as a negation of the very methods for which it stands.