SUFFRAGETTES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10673, 1 July 1912, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTES

I CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association— By Electr.k Telegraph—Copyright.)

A SUSPECTED OUTRAGE SIR R. McKENNA VINDICATED. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, June 29. Suffragette!-, are suspected of having attempted to burn down the residence of the Right Hon. Henrv E.H. Hobhouse at Corshani, in Wiltshire, A hole was found under a doo?,through which paper saturated with oil had boon forced. Two ladies were seen in the vicinity of the house at four o'clock,- in the m^'-nin". The House of Commons, "by 213 votes tn 67. deflator en pj'«s a resolution reducing the salary of Sir Reginald McKenna as an expression of disapproval of his action in forcibly feeding the suffragettes who are in gaol. SEVERAL SUFFRAGETTES. ' ARRESTED. (Received June 29, 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 28 In connection with, the female suffrage movement there has been a recurrence of the epidemic of windowsmashing. Windows in public buildings at Manchster,! Ludlow, Hitchin, and Letchworth; also at Clapham and in Regent Street, Lo-naon, weue ©mashed. Several suffragettes have been arrested, o'bairged with damaging property. SHAKING THE PREMIER. (Received June 29, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. June 2d There has also been window smashing at Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Derby, , an< j elsewhere. Notices were pasted in the broken windows prot33ti"<r ngainst the forcible feeding of the Suffragettes in prison, and wa'-";">t the Government that there would be more smashing if women ivere not giv~en. the vote. Two Suffragettes seized and attempted to shake the Prime Minister (Mr, Asquith) at a LiberaM3olonial Club reception. The Suffragettes were hurriedly ejected.