Militants Stoned

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 50, 20 July 1914, Page 5

Militants Stoned

PUBLIC TAKES THE LAW IXTO ITS OWN' HANDS. PROTEST AGAINST TOLERANCE BY I, THE COURTS. P-y Cable —Press Association Copyright London, July 18. A mob armed with sticks and stones stormed a suffragette meeting in the L'..:iand Park Rink. They -iiicshed the windows. The suffragettes and their men friends (barricaded the doors, and used dozens of poles, bayonet fashion, against the mob. The siege was sustained until the police relieved the defenders. • ANOTHER PICTURE SLASHED. London, July 17. Anne Hart, with a butcher's cleaver concealed in her dress, viciously slashed Mr. Fane Millard's portrait of Thomas Carlyle several times and damaged the face seriously. An attendant had great difficulty in preventing further damage. MR. McKENNA'S HOUSE BESIEGED. London, July 17. Tn the House of Commons, Mr McKenna interrogated, declined to interfere with the magistrate's discretion in bailing-out suffragettes pending trial. He saw no objection provided they gave an undertaking that they would not commit other offences in the meantime. He admitted that his house had been besieged that morning and he escaped in a taxi unobserved.