THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 June 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

CABLE NEWS

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

DAMAGES AGAINST WINDOW-

SMASHERS.

MINISTER'S UNFORTUNATE SPEECH.

(Received June 9, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, June 8. In, the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice the case has, been concluded in which msur ance companies, through West End firms affected, are suing Mr and _Mrs Pethick Lawrence, Mrs Pankhurst, Miss Christobel Pankhurst, and Mrs Tuke ior damages for trespass and breakage of plate-glass windows during the raid made as a result of a conspiracy in connection with the Women's Social and Political Union. Plaintiffs were awarded £864 against members of the union who had joined before March, 1912. Mrs Lawrence pleaded that speeches by Mr Lloyd George and Mr C. E. Hobhouse (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), had tended to encourage violence. Mr Justice Darling, in summing up, said that Mr Hobhou&e's speech had been most unfortunate. It had Suggested that the Suffragists had not produced a popular uprising comparable to that at Nottingham Castle in 1832, and at the Hyde Park raiilings in 1867.

MRS PANKHURST,

TERM OF LICENSE EXPIRED

(Received June 9, 8.30 a.m.)

LONDON, June 8. Mrs Pankhurst's license has expired. She is very weak and confined to her bed. it is believed that no effort will be made to re-arrest bar this week unless she attempts to leave her house.

Suffragists burnt a pavilion belonging to the North Middlesex Cricket Olub at Crouch End. Three of the women who were arrested outside St. James's Palace wer© fined for obstruction. MISS DAVISON DEAD. (Received June 9. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, June 8. . 'Miss Davison, injured on the Ep som racecourse during the race for the Bsrby, is dead. GRANDSTAND BURNT DOWN. (Received Jitwe 9, 2 p.m.) LONDON, June 8. Suffragettes burnt the grandstand at Hurst Park, and simultaneously fired the stables.

A SUFFRAGETTE FUNERAL

MANIFESTO ISSUED.

(Received Last Nigh*; n3O O . c ioek.) ,-.- t j £jNDON, June 9. Miss Davison did not speak after the accident.

Her family do not support militancy, • but are willing that, the Women's Social Union shouTd conduct the funeral. Christobel Pankhurst. in a manifesto, declares that Miss Davison died to call attention to women's wrongs: Argument had not convinced thv> Hon. H.-H. Asquith of the seriousness of the position, but perhaps her death may. "There will," the manifesto concludes "be a public funeral in honour of a soldier fallen in the war of "freedom."