BAIL FOR SUFFRAGETTES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 139, 18 July 1914, Page 9

BAIL FOR SUFFRAGETTES.

HOME SECRETARY AGREES.

HIS HOUSE BESIEGED. "Times" and "Sydney Sun" Services. (Received July 18, 8 a.m.). LONDON, J.uly 17

In the House of ('ominous, Mr McKenna, on being interrogated, declined to interfere with the magistrate's. discretion .in allowing bail t6 suffragettes pending their trial. He said lie saw lio objection, provided they gave an undertaking that they would not commit other offences in the meantime. Mr McKenna admitted that his house had been besieged in the morning and that he had escaped in a taxi xinobserved.

RELEASED NINE TIMES.

' MRS PANKHURST 'S RECORD.

LONDON, July 16.

Mrs Pankhurst, who has been : rearrested, has in fifteen months served

The ■well-known suffragette, who has been re-arrested nine times under the Cat and Mouse Act, to serve a sentence or three years' imprisonment.

forty days of her three-year sentence. She lias been released nine times.

STICKS, STONES, AND POLES.

-ANGRY MOB STORMS MEETING

(Received July 18, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 17

A mob, armed with sticks and stones; stormed a suffragette in the Holland Park rink.

They Smashed the windows, and' the suffragettes' men friends barricaded the doors 1 and used dozens of poles, bayonet fashion, .against the mob. The i siege was < sustained until the police relieved • the defenders.

ARMED WITH A CLEAVER.

ANOTHER PICTURE SLASHER.

(Received July 18, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, july 17.

A woman named Anne Hunt, who had a butcher's cleaver concealed under her dress, viciously slashed Fane Millar's portrait of Carlyle several times, and damaged the face seriously.

An attendant had great in preventing her from doing further damage.