THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 May 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

CRICKET PAVILION DESTROYED

ATTEMPT TO FIRE BUNGALOWS

(Received May 8, 9.40 a.in) LONDON, May 7. Ada Ward, suspected of placing a bomb en the Grand Hotel, was discharged, the police being satisfied that she had an alibi. Suffragettes burnt the cricket pavilion at Fulham, and set fire to an unoccupied house at Finchley. They also attempted to burn two bunga-. lows at Bexhill.

A MYSTERY

(Received May 8, 9.40 a.m) LONDON, May 7

The two bombs found at St. Paul's Cathedral contained detonators, -clock-work, screws, bolts, and explosives. • The ticking of the bomb in St. Paul's Cathedral attracted the verger's notice. How it was placed in the choir is a mystery.

FIENDISHLY xw,vJSRFUL,

(Received Mav 8, 9.40 a.m) LONDON, May 7. The bomb found in St. Paul's was of the size of a pound mustard tin. An explosion would have wrecked the choir, the marble reredos, and Grinting Gibbons's famous carvings. The police describe the bomb as small, but fiendishly powerful.

NEWSPAPER OPINION

CAUSE SUFFERS THROUGH MILITANCY.

(Received Mav 8, - 9.40 ~ a.m) LONDON, May 7. The newspapers ascribe the worsened position of the Women's Suflrag: cause compared to what it was in 1911 and 1912, la-rgoly to. the militancy. The Westminster Gazette says that Parliament felt that if it passed MiDickinson's Bill it would be acting in the teeth of public opinion. "Yesterday's majority included ■m:r:y members who favour, a small number of women voters, not 6,QQQ)(X)O .forthwith."-

■FiftAJNCHTSE BILL

(Received Last Night, 10 o'clock.) LONDON, May 8. The Women's liberal Federation adopted a resolution expressing consternation at the defeat of the Franchise Bill, and protested sigainsrt. seventy-five Liberals voting against the Bill.

DEFECTIVE BOMBS.

(Received Last wight, 10 o'clock.) LONDON, May 8. The .mechanism of the bombs found near St. Paul's ami .in Bouverie Street was clumsy and defective. The Bishop cf London lias invited a large evening congregation to St. Paul's, to join in- a thanksgiving service for the preservation of the buildins;. He denounced those who arc "doing tlie devil's work."