SUFFRAGE TERRORISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 57, 6 March 1912, Page 5

SUFFRAGE TERRORISTS.

MISS PANKHURST-S THREAT. COEBCTBO THE OOYBBBMBBT. VANISHING STJFFOBT. (By Cable—Press Assoclatlon.~Copyrlght.) [(Received 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 5. Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, addressing the Women's Political Union, said that now that private property was -attacked the public, in its own interest, would be compelled to coerce the Government. Miss Pankhurst defended the wrecking of innocent tradesmen's windows on the ground that no election was innocent. If Friday's method was insufficient, women would terrorise the whole -male community. SENT TO HARD LABOTJB. The magistrate sentenced tbe windowbreakers to hard labour, including Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson, of Harleystreet. The sentences were received with applause in the Courts. The "Daily News," hitherto a supporter of the suffragettes, says that the Government cannot longer permit society to be disorganised by a few outlaws, who have declared war on.social order. Recent events have destroyed the cause in Parliament, and tbe anti-suffragettes are in the ascendancy. The windows of 30 premises and four post offices were wrecked yesterday during the suffragette Taid. The perpetrators are members of the Liverpool section of the movement.

CHECKTMO A RIOT. A big demonstration bad been planned for last night, to take the form of an advance on the Bouses of Parliament at Westminster. Ibis being known, 6000 police were in readiness to hold the crowd in check. The advance on Westminster waa heralded by the firing of a rocket from the headquarters of the Women's Political Union. Strong police reinforcements arrived, and the procession was broken np. Twenty thousand speetatotre witnessed the struggle. A number of windows were smashed in the Government offices. STBUGGXE IK PALACE TABS. A contingent of women attempted to enter the palace yard. A brief and turbulent scene followed, the_ police expelling them. Two hundred - arrests were made. Oeasionally spectators roughly handled the suffragettes- A counter-demonstra-tion was made by 200 youths, who smashed the windows of various suffragette literature shops in the Strand. While the mounted police were clear* ing Whitehall, the pressure of the orowd precipitated a portion of, the masonry coping of the. Treasury into the' Men below. Several people ware hurt. The Royal Academy has closed its exhibittonsjpwing to receipt of a waning of the risk of suffragettes damaging the pictures. . Emily Pitfield, av nurse, has been committed for trial in connection with the dropping of' blamng shavings, soaked in paraffin, on the floor of the post office.

COKCXLZATXOV BOX XXXJtKD. The consensu* of opinion among members of the Hoose of Commons is that the recent action* of the militant suffragettes have killed the Conciliation Bill (which proposes to give the franchise to women on a honsehoMing basis), and that woman's suffrage is bo longer a possibility of the present Parliament. Questioned regarding the prospect of passing legislation empowering the recovery of damages from tbe funds of the Woman's Social and Political Union, the Prime Minister, Mr. Aequitb, promised to consult the Attorney-Genets! (SbRtifus Isaacs). Mr. Asqirith added that there was a widespread opinion that responsibility should be brought home to the wretched individuals concerned, sod to other* rwho were responsible.