THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 May 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

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MR CEORGE LANSBURY BOUND OVER. (Received May 5, 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 4. Mr George Lansbury, ex-Socialist M.P., who was charged with incitein. Nt to crime in connection with the militant Suffragette movement, was bound over for a year, himself in .-L'JIHX), and two sureties of £SOO each. He declined to find sureties, and wa« sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Bail, ponding an appeal, was allowed.

FREE SPEECH DEMONSTRATION. HOT TLME IN TRAFALGARSQUARE. (Received May 5, 10.15 a.m.) At a free speech demonstration in Trafalgar Square Mr Keir Hardie, Labour M.P., and Mr Cunninghame Graham wer e the chief speakers. The crowd fought the police and rescued prisoner®. Mounted police charged the crowd and cleared the Square. Many persons were trampled on and sustained minor injuries.

LIVELY SCENES. POLICE BADLY HANDLED. SEVEN ARRESTS MADE. (Received Last Nierht 11.30 o'clock.) LONDON, May 5. Thirty thousand people took part in the Trafalgar Square demonstration. Messrs Keir Hardie, J. C. Wedgwood, and J. Martin, members of the House of Commons, and Mrs Despard delivered speeches against the restriction' on freedom of speech, owing to the prohibition of Suffragette openair meetings. The arrival of the Trades' procession, in which was a group of Suffragettes carrying flags, started trouble.

The women attempted to mount the plinth of the Nelson Column, but the police barred them. A couple of .Socialists then essayed to climb the plinth and the police threw them down. For an hour after this serious conflicts occurred -between the police and the mob. A solid amss of and omen hurled itself against the constables, surrounding the Column . , Mr Keir Hardie urg.d them to disperse. There was much screaming from the women wedged in the struggling mass. The police showed the greatest forbearance, but were compelled to hit in self-defence. Some of them were badly handled in fighting with the hooligan element, A squadron of mounted police cleared the Square. ' Seven men were arrested.

MEETING BROKEN UP. TWO ARRESTS MADE. (Received This Morning. 12.5 o'clock.) LONDON, May 5. A crowd broke up a Suffragette meeting in Hyde Park. The daughter of Mr G. -Lansbury, ex-Socialist M.P., and another were arrested.