THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 June 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

CABLE NEWS

(United, Press Astocxation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

HUNGER-STRIKER RELEASED

LILfAN LENTOX ESCAPES

(Receiivd .lunc 23, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 22. Mibs Laura L i inwx, who was recently sentenced to six months, imprisonment for being concerned in the Suffragist conspiracy to damage property, lrt s been released, having "hung -v struck." The police Imvo been vainly searching for Miys Lilian Lenton, who, after boing sentenced to a term of imprisonment for bang concerned in tho Kew Gardens outrages, was released after a "hunger strike," and ; who subsequently confessed to being concerned in another outrage for per- ' petrating which two other persons were escaped disguised as a van boy, i though several detectives had been watching b?r house day and night. Thirty cartridges, oiled rags, and a burning taper were discovered in St. John's .Church, Scotland. They were extinguished. LAND'S.END TO LONDON. A MARCH THAT WAS INTERRUPTED. (Received Juno 23, 9.20 a.m.'. LONDON, June 22. A crowd of several thousands at Cambourne (Cumberland) mobbed Suffragettes who were marching from Land's End to London, and i pelted eggs. The Suffragettes took Vefuge in an and escaped, disguised, by a back door. DAMAGE AT ST. ANDREW'S UNIVERSITY. GATTY LABORATORY BURNT. (Received June 23,' 9.25 a.m.) .'■'. LONDON, June 22. Suffragettes burnt thv'Gatty Marine Laboratory at St. . Andrew's University. The damage is estimated at £SOOO.

(Received June 23. 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, June 22

■lt was the east wing of the Gatty Laboratory that was burnt down. A window pane had be?n covered with soft soap. A dozen tins of petroleum were discovered. Many valuable scientific drawings were destroyed.

CONGRESS AT BUDAPESTH

<'BREACH OF HOSPITALITY."

(Received. June 23, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON. June 22

Mrs Despard, Mrs Cobden and Dr Garrett Anderson were permitted to address the Suffrage Congress. They complained of the exclusion of their party, and commented on the narrowness of the National Union. Mrs Pawcett reported that the union, was mot responsible for their exclusion. ,

Th-3 President declined to permit discussidn of national conflicts. At this the non-militants cheered, resenting the militant speeches as a hreach of hospitality.