WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9044, 20 March 1908, Page 5

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

A PROCESSION STOPPED BY THE POLICE. Received March 19. 7.58 a.m. LONDON, March 18. The police at King's Cross stopped a Suffragist procession which was escorting nineteen persons released from Holloway Prison. Talking of the suffragists, says a London paper, their raiil on Downing Street was a cleverly-planned affair, and came very near to being a success. The raiders actually penetrated the sacred precincts of No. in. The' raid began at half-past eleven—after most of the Ministers had assembled for a Cabinet meeting —with the arrival of four women in motor-cabs. These women waited until a horse brougham appeared at the end of the street, and then rushed across the road, crying "Votes for women!" "We want votes!" Two of them had previously fastened chains about their waists, and in a moment they slipped these round railings and fastened them with padlocks. The police were astounded, and it was some time before the chains were broken. All the time the cry of "Votes for women!" was kept up. This was a picturesque attempt at martyrdom, but it was merely a clever ruse to engage the attention of the police while a more daring plan was executed. While the constables were wrestling with the four women, two women who had arrived in the horse brougham quietly opened the door of No. 10 and stepped inside, pursued by trr; police. To get to the Cabinet chamber one has to cross a hall, go down a long corridor, through anothe- door, and cross another lobby. The intruders got no I further than the swing-doors leading into the long corridor, when they were seized by policemen and attendants and carried out. However, they left their boot-marks on the floor, which was perhaps some consolation to them. They fully intended to enter the sacred Cahinst chamber while the Cabinet was sitting.