WOMEN WITH CLUBS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume 1, Issue 8, 14 February 1914, Page 7

WOMEN WITH CLUBS.

PRINCESS AND POLICE. SUFFRAGETTE DISTURBANCES. "Times" — "Sydney Sun" Special Cable. London, February 13. Seven suffragettes concerned in the Campden Hill Square disturbances appeared before the West London Court, charged with obstructing the police. Evidence was given that women carried wooden clubs. A complaint was made that the women were roughly handled. The Magistrate said that , some women bruised easily, even when grasped affectionately. Princess Duleep Singh, giving evidence in support of the defendants, declared • that the police were excited. She herself was knocked down, also threel others who refused to give their names. Several of the defendants were fined. Suffragettes who appeared at Bow Street as the result of a disturbance as a protest that no mention of the suffragette cause was made in the King's Speech, were ordered to keep the peace. N INSPECTOR ACQUITTED. (Received February 14, 8.5 a.m.) • LONDON, February 13. Inspector Potter has been acquitted on the charge of assaulting a suffragist during a recent disturbance.