MRS PANKHURST.

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

MRS PANKHURST.

AAKEBTED ON BOARD SHIP

■« SUFFBAGETTE WARNING TOO LATE.

' 'TiiMt?--'Sydney Sun' Special CaUes, (Received) Last Night, 7.5 o'clock.) ■- , /LONDON, December 5.. "Mrs Pankhurst, Mrs Pankjiuret, don't you land; the*cats are after " 'you/' shrieked a boat-load of sprayr- jsoddeff .Suffragettes alongside the V Majestic shortly "after noon. :■■■'. ' It was too late, however, as an . iiour previously the police boat, conveying inspector Riley, Chief Cpnstaoie Sowerby, four detectives 4nd " a wardress, left Devonport and? proceeding three miles out, met the coming, liner, winch anchored whilst the police party clambered aboard. .- Mrs Pankhurst, who was in ..her itate-room, was notified'that the po- ' lice ranted her on the upper deck. -She sent an emphatic refusal, whereupon Inspector Riley and Chief Cpn- "■''■' stable Sowerby were ' conducted jto her cabin. The letter'orderedMrs; Pankhurst r to'accompany him. ,\ j i r, . ; 'lira ; Pankh,urst , Tefused,; •adding: - : *k do not know- you.'' ■■;' ' • i Inspector Riley then said: "But 'you know me. 1 ": ■■:'.! ; •■ V; • Mrs Pankhurst again vehemently protested, asking to see thtf warrant; lint was informed that being under parole the warrant was unnecessary. 1 Aff&r another" refusal Inspectc-V, Riley arrested her and handed her. over to the wardress. i ■fy.-f • The jpassengqrs- cheer<ed ,;as the: * ■■jfitiiy was descending the ladder. 1

iipEAITIN"AMERICA.

.:< ,IflßWs-Z'E^fe'" 6^fe-:A"'DSTKA]iIA . (Received; Dumber" Decemher 4, ~ : ■ House Rules Committee, asking pr "'". "the" formation ofa House 'Commitjtee ; the whole cfUestion r o£> : >-. urome'n'isuffrage, throughout th^;#n-, ■■V ifeed SfeW*;V' *? " 1 ";'.:'. '"'' \':'■'•■ l ' .Opponents to;! ,th# , propoMil' wrq. ~ Jhat, working:\WQmeft;.'!H«tt:e- likely, [to. lose than they would Ygjiin ~. ; t&tttagh ■ suffrages < r*' \ > -" -'.:' ''■!;'i'. ; 'j v ->• The operation of women's, suffrage in other countries, including New iZealand and Australia, was in ■ ••' favour' of the proposal."