Dead as Queen Anne

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 22, 16 June 1914, Page 5

Dead as Queen Anne

SIR. PHILIP SNOWDEN ON FEMALE SUFFRAGE. HAPPENINGS ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH. SUFFRAGETTE SUPPORTERS HUSTLED. further scenes in churches.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright i Received 15,; 10.30 p.m. . London, June 15. The bomb discovered in St. George's chapel consisted of a canister of gunpowder. Two suffragettes were ejected from the Abbey for disturbing evensong. The crowd molested tiieiu and ihey were forcdto seek police protection. Afterwards they were hustled in the street, but escaped in a motor 'bus. The police, fearing danger, stopped the Hyde Park meeting.

\A large crowd on Hampstead Heath attacked tile suffragettes and their m*le supporters. They smashed the platform and hustled the supporters into a pond. Interruptions at St. Paul's lasted throughout the anthem l . A woman protested against the presence of the judges ■Who ordered women to he tortured. A suffragette chained to the plan connecting the chairs could only be removed after the plank had 'been sawn.

Mr. Philip Snowden, M.P., in a speech in London, said militancy struck a Mow at the every essential of civilisation, namely, the substitution 6f reason by brute force. A year ago there was a prospect of the measure passing the House of Commons, but now, through the militants' action, the suffrage question was as dead as Queen Anne.

CROWDS PELT THE MILITANTS,

WOMEN RESCUED BY POLICE.

Loiidon, June 14. Arthur Barnett, a solicitor who was charged with sending letters containing drugs to imprisoned sunragettes, was fined £lO. He pleaded that he did not know the contents of the packages. The firm will not act for the suffragettes in the future. Suffragettes attempted to march to Olvinpia, where the horse show was being held. Extraordinary precautions were taken to protect the horses. The police broke up the procession, near the Albert Hall. The suffragettes burnt the Reigate cricket pavilion. A crowd on Palmer's Green pelted the suffragettes with eggs and bags of flour. Those pelted included Goulden, Mrs. Pankhurst's brother. A crowd at Leicester, including women with firelighters, attacked and demolished a market place stall where the suffragettes were selling confectionery during self-denial week. The' police rescued the suffragettes.

WHY LOaSE THE CHAINS?

London, June 14. The Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs and High Court Judges attended the hospital service at St. Paul's in the afternoon. Several suffragettes were ejected for interrupting. Two, who were chained to seats, were removed with difficulty.

ANOTHER CHTJBCH OUTRAGE,

London, June 14. A suffragette boinb exploded in the aisle of St. George's, Hanover street. The bomb was in a pew near the chancel, and exploded two hours aiter evensong. Three stained glass windows in the chancel were damaged, and Thomhill's picture of tile Last Supper over the altar was injured.