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New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1913, Page 41

The London Monument, which was the scene of the Suffragette escapade lately, stands 202 feet high, and is one of the loftiest isolated columns in the world, but its effect is spoiled by its sunken position near the river and the high buildings which crowd around it. Commenting upon the affixing of the militant banner, or * Votes for Women,' on the top of the monument lately, a London evening paper recalls Pope's famous lines, * Where London's column, pointing at the skies like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.' The original lie, of course, was the statement that the pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the burning of London by treachery and malice of the Popish faction in 1666. _ This inscription was cut in 1681, obliterated m the reign of James 11., re-cut in the reign of William of glorious, pious, and immortal memory, and finally erased by order of the Common Council of the City of London in 1831. J