VOTES BY VIOLENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 48, 25 February 1913, Page 5

VOTES BY VIOLENCE.

SUFFRAGETTES' LOGIC.

PUBLIC TEMPER RISING AGAINST FANKHURST POLICY. (By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 5.41 ajn.) LOXDOX.. February 24. The damage which the suffragettes did last week to property amounted to £6.000. Miss Annie Kenny, in the course of a speech, dared the authorities to allow any woman to die in prison. She said that such an event would make suffragettes by the hundred. Mrs. Despard was compelled to abandon her meeting at Thornton Heath, and other suffragettes were refused a hearing at Wimbledon. A party of suffragettes, bearing sandwich boards, was pelted with rotten eggs at Preston, and obliged to take refuge in the neighbouring shops.

A number of the seats at Hampstead Heath have been stencilled "Votes for Women"' in green paint. The wet paint damaged, the dresses of people using the seats. Signal wires on the Great Western line at Xewport have been cut by suffragettes. The '"Daily Citizen," in the course of an article on the situation, says that the public temper is rising against the Pankhurst policy of militancy, and that the present methods are causing more injury to tie cause than a score of anti-suffrage leagues could do. I Miss Lcnton. one of the suffragettes who set fire to the teahouse in Kew Gardens, has been released in a state of collapse owing; to having carried out her threat to refuse to eat any food. Mrs. Pankhurst, who twitted the officials with having arrested the women who damaged property, while they allowed her to go free although she really incited them to commit the violence, has been charged under the Malicious Damage to Property Act with incitement in connection with the YValto* outrage when Mr. Lloyd George's house was blown up. Mrs. Pankhurst was arrested to-day.