SUFFRAGE ANARCHISTS

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 46, 22 February 1913, Page 5

SUFFRAGE ANARCHISTS

A SHEAF OF CRIMES.

ARSON AND GLASS-SMASHING. . BREAKING HUNGER STRIKE. A SALT 'WATER SUGGESTION. (By Cable—l'ress Association. —Copyright,' (Received 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 21. Since the orchid outrage in the Kew Gardens a special watch has been kept for the militant suffragette, but in spite of this they eluded the watchers and set fire to a teahouse, which was totally destroyed. The men on duty saw flames in the tea pavilion, and then saw two women running. They whistled for the police, who rushed up and caught the incendiaries. The women dropped cards inscribed ''Peace on earth, good will to all men, when women get votes."' They wore men's clothing under their skirts, and it is presumed that they intended to escape in disguise. Forty waitresses are thrown out of employment. AN AMPLE RESERVE. Mrs. Drummond states that Miss Lenton and Miss Locke, who were arrested. have been voluntary workers in the Union's office. There is an ample reserve of militant suffragettes to carry on the campaign indefinitely. Tlie Government law offices are considering Jlrs. Pankhurst's speech declaring her responsibility for the instigation of the bomii outrage-.. Suffragettes set fire to the old Manchester Golf Club pavilion. The brigade extinguished the fire. ON THE DOORSTEP. Others filled the keyholes of many houses in Moseley end Birmingham with small shot, makin" it impossible for the owners to insert their latch keys. Another band of suffragettes placed •tubes of Greek fire in o Battersea pillar box c.nd destroyed v. number of letters. Others smashed fourteen plate glass windows in Ashford. Kent, and damaged the golf links at and set fire to the shelter. Several suffragettes were sentenced at i the Loridon Sessions for window smashing to terms of four and six months. NOTHING WITHOTTT VIOICENCE. The Women's Social and Political Union has established ?. branch in Paris, where Miss Christabel Pankhurst delivers addresses at the weekly meetings. She declares that nothing can be gained without violence, and that they had- all the necessary money. If Mrs. Pankhurst were imprisoned she would let herself die of hunger. Miss Pankhurst. in an interview yesterday, stated that she rejoiced at the Walton bomb outrage. Mrs. Fawcett, Lady Betty Balfour, and several other suffragettes are strongly protesting against Mrs. Pankhurst's ■methods of violence. An Australian, writing vi the "Tele graph,"' suggests that the hunger striker; be supplied with salt water for washing purposes and a diet of milk gruel. lie says that it is easy to go hungry but none can withstand the pangs ol thirst. A PBJSMITJM: ON DISORDER. Mr. Herbert Samuel. Postmaster-Gen-eral, speaking at Etiston, said that il Parliament sanctioned the suffrage it would be putting a premium on disturb ances and inviting crime. There was a growing opinion that it would be wrong to legislate at present, lest this action encourage men to resort to similar violence. Mrs. Pankhurst. in the course of a speech at a meeting of the Women's Social and Political Union at the London Pavilion, urged, in defence of the militant policy of the Union, that, as long as women were " outlaws," they were justified in open rebellion. She declared that the fight would be carried on. as before, with every regard for human life, adding that if there were any lives to be lost they would he their own. Referring to ber last speech at the Albert Hall. Mrs. Pankhurst said that she was perfectly well aware that in inciting that meeting to rebellion she did commit a breach of the law, because so long as women were outlaws, so long as women suffered from intolerable wrongs, they were justified in open rebellion. The great mistake of women in the past was that they had been too law-abiding. She was waiting quite calmly, and with a considerable amount of enjoyment, for the next movement on the part of *" the enemy" with regard to this rebellion of theirs. Whether the enemy attacked them in large numbers or singly, they were ''armed and prepared" for whatever might happen. They were just as much at war as the people of the Balkans, only they fought in a different way, being women. People said, " But vo'u imperii human life."' All she could say was that their fight would be carried on as it had been, with every kind of regard lor human life. They had every desire to carry it through to success 'without the loss of any lives, and if there were any lives to be lost they would be their own. "Suffragettes" had already lost their lives through the movement, and she knew there were many more' who would gladly die for the cause.