THE SUFFRAGETTES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10576, 6 March 1912, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES

THE LATEST RAID

BROKEN UP BY THE POLICE. A COUNTER DEMON,STRA r JTON. (Received Last Night, 10.2-5 o'clock.) LONDON, March 5. The windows of thirty premises and four post offices were wrecked yesterday during the suffragette raid. Tho perpetrators were members of tho Liverpool section. The advance in Westminster in tho evening was heralded by the firing of a rocket from headquarters of the Women's Political Union. Strong police reinforcements arrived, and the procession was broken up. There were 20,000 spectators. A number of windows wero smashed in tho Government offices, and a contingent attempted to enter the Palace yard. After brief and turbulent scenes the police expelled .the raiders and arrested 200. Occasionally the spectators roughly handled tho suffragettes. A counter demonstration of 200 youths smashed windows in various suffragette literature shops in the Strand, While the mounted police were clearing Whitehall, the pressure of the crowd precipated a portion of the masonry coping of the Treasury into the arch, and several were Irart. The Royal Academy has closed the exhibition owing to the receipt of a warning that there was a risk of the suffragettes damaging the pictures. OPINIONS IN THE HOUSE. EFFECT ON CONCILIATION BILL. SUFFRAGETTES SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE. (Received Last- Night, 10.2-3 o'clock.) LONDON, March 5. There is a consensus of opinion amongst the members of the House of Commons that the recent action of the militant suffragettes has killed the Conciliation Bill, and that the suffragettes have no longer a possibility of consideration in the present Parliament. . : questioned, regarding legislation empowering the recovery of damage from the funds of the Women's Political Union, .promised to consult, with the Attorney-< General', and added that it mas the widespread opinion that tho 'responsibility should bo brought home to the wretched individuals con. cerned and others responsible. 1 FURTHER ARRESTS. WINDOW SMASHING. (Received March,s, 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, March 4. Thirty suffragettes have been arrested for raiding the principal drapers' shops in the West End. Many windows were smashed. ANOTHER RAID. TROOPS TAKE A HAND. IN RESTORING ORDER. (Received March 5, 11 a.m.) LONDON, March -1. Fifty suffragettes, arriving in cabs and taxi-aaibs, and armed with hammers and stones, which they concealed in their stockings, raided Knightsbridge, Kennington, and High. Street, and smashed windows in Harrod's, Barker's and other stores. Troops from the Kjiiglitsbridge barracks assisted in arresting them. Later windows in Lord Loreburn's, Lord Crewe's and Mr J. A. Pease's residences and in the House of Lords were smashed. The police, mounted and on foot, wero powerless owing to the widespread attacks. Tho authorities li'ave closed the British and other museums. GAOL WINDOWS SMASHED. 6000 POLICE HELD IN READINESS. (Received March o, 5.2-5 a.m.) LONDON, March 4. The .suffragettes .-mashed the cell windows in. Hollowly Gaol, waved tilieir handkerchiefs, and sang the "Marseillaise." iSix thousand constables are in readiness for to-night's demonstration in Parliament Square. OPINION OF LABOUR WHIP. DEMONSTRATION DENOUNCED. (Received March o, 8.2-j a.m.) LONDON, March 4. Mr G. Roberts, the Labour Whip, denounced the suffragist demonstration in the West End as a combination of hysteria and. hooliganism.