THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 March 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association —-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

BOYCOTTING OF TRADESMEN. WITHDRAWING MONEY FROM SAVINGS BANK. (Received March 10, 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 9. Tho National Union of Woman's Suffrage Societies has resolved to oppose Government candidates njyl support Labourites at the next election. Non-militants have begun a boycott of tradesmen and clergymen opposed to women's suffrage, and divert their charitable and other donations to the suffrage cause, and withdraw their money from the Post Office Savings Bank and re-invest it in countries w'hevo suffrage has been granted. Suffragettes destroyed railways, lamps, and small trees in the Nottingham Forest Recreation Ground. They were not detected.

SENT TO GAOL. (Received March 10, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 9. Franklin, a male suffragist, who was charged in December last with setting fire to the Great Central train at Harrow, has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. The suffragette Locke, who was implicated in the Kew Gardens outrage, has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. She .must also pay the costs, and find two sureties of £IOO each to be of good behaviour for two years after her release. OPEN-AIR MEETINGS BROKEN UP. (Received March 10, 11 a.m.') LONDON, March 0. Many thousands of people on Wimbledon Common rendered suffragette meetings abortive. There was wild disorder. In Hyde. Park five thousand mobbed the militants. A strong force of police rescued Mrs Drammond and others. Suffragettes burnt a bowlers' pavilion at Heaton Park.