SUFFRAGETTES MOBBED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 54, 4 March 1913, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTES MOBBED.

RIOTOUS MEETINGS.

FIGHTING FIRE WITH TIRE.

POLICE TO THE RESCUE,

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 3. A large counter demonstration endeavoured to prevent a Suffragette meeting in the Pavilion Theatre, to which men were refused admission. The student element predominated and created a terrific, din in Piccadilly, shouting thk- battlecry, "No men, no women!"' A strong police detachment ultimately enabled the Suffragettes to enter the building. At a suffrage meeting held in Hyde Park yesterday and attended by 8,000 people, a section of the crowd pelted Mrs. Drummond (a prominent :suffragette) with clods of earth. „ At Wimbledon, where another meeting was held, a crowd of 5.000 people harassed the speakers with motor horns and cries of '"Duck them." .

A band of youths rushed the platform and overpowered the police.

Wild confusion reigned for half-an-hour. when the police succeeded in rescuing the suffragettes. The police at Pontyponl (Monmouthshire) denied the statement that they were hoaxed by suffragettes in connection with the exhibition of placards, containing an order for the mobilisation of the territorials on a war basis. They state that the placards were issued in error.