SUFFRAGETTE RIOTS

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 12 August 1913, Page 3

SUFFRAGETTE RIOTS

i Londn, August 10. , A free-speech demonstration was held in Trafalgar Square today, addresses in favor of the suffragette propaganda being delivered by Mr J. C. Wedgwood, Liberal member for Newcastle* under-Lyme, Mr Will Thorne, Labor member for West Ham, and Mr Geo. Lansbury, ex-M,P. for Bow and Bromley. The meeting culminated in Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, who is at liberty under a "Cat and Mouse" license, leading an attack on the Premier's residence in DowningStreet. Hand-to-hand fighting followed the police using their truncheons on the male followers of the suffragettes. Suffragettes set fire to the higher grade schools at Sutton, Ashfield, sprinkling parraffin and leaving cans of explosives in the building. The police cut the fuses, and the brigade extinguished the fire before serious damage had been [ caused. When a number o' hi®igettjs attempted to horsewhip a man named Pearson, a party of women just released from goal after serving sentences for offences not connected with the militant movement, ran to his rescue. A isharp melee followed, the suffragettes being quickly worsted, They were having a lively time when rescued by the police. Ordinary prisoners express strong antipathy to the suffragettes because the latter are released, while the rest are obliged to serve sentences out. The women were obviously delighted at the opportunity of ventilating their grievance in a practical manner. Mr Lloyd George, during his address to 10,000 miners yesterday, was much interrupted by suffragettes. Tne chairman threatened that the audience might duck them in a pond if they did not desist. ■ Over 150 Anglican clergymen to-day waited on Mr Asquith with a petition regarding the Cat and Mouse Act, which they maintained, "in the name of God is a cruel and unprecedentsd procedure of the law."