"SHOOT THE KING."

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 164, 11 July 1914, Page 17

"SHOOT THE KING."

LATEST SUFFRAGETTE MADNESS. T HB CROWDS RESENTMENT. Shouts of "Snoot the Kin*" Oiled n hall whicH a meeting of the Women'n Social B , ~o li tlcal I'niou. tie mllltnnt euffraee S.ta*-. ~ horn in lonapn on May £ ETCIT mention i.f Kin;.- (.corgo s name *'» greeted wlili an?ry derision and prolonged hissing. Suffragtete save police an.l chnrch officials i us y Sunday on May 24. while they them--dves In some cases rerelveU rough treatBent Irom the crowds whirix showed their -sentment at the recent Interference wirh tie King and the damagf done to pictures j, tie National Gallery. Sylrii rankhonst. who was npiln arrested niiiiw tne " (,at anl ' lnoufiO Al ''' " nJ s * r gust End followers provided the biggest cjclteinent of the day. A great proi-n-tdon formed at Canning Town and marched to Victoria Park. On the way the women picked jpSylrlaPanJihunst.-who was chained and hjndcaffed to fifteen women and surronndeU jy other supporters armed with staves. The police allowed the procession to prott cd, but when the park was reached they p,t tlie militant leader and those chained to bar Into the park and then shut the gates nf alnst the rest of the women. Taken at a dfcidvantasrc, the women put up v f.;I(T flgbt, but the police finally liroke the chains 08 1 unrated Sylvia, They allowed the gtters to p>. Oatflde th& g;te a furious .-tnigglc went oa .between male riifTrasists aud an;iIjffrJElstß, which the jiolice had great dltliplty in 'breaking up. At Uampstead lleuth. safTraglsts had M Blloa the poUre t«r pruteetlon from a moli irllcli rnsied dieir platform with cries or ►Duck them; We will tea-.-h them to insult the King!" Many <rf Hie women cliocp AVo-lmlnstor Abbry and Newcastle i'athitlral to make f-Unrch demousiratioris. At the Abbey prayers were chanted fn r Mrs. Pankhnrst. protests were uttered agalcet the apathy of the Ohurch in the matier <>f tho forc-ihie /ceding of women, and an appeal was made jo the Bishop of Down, who wax preaching, to prevent Ihe torturins of women." A protest was also made against woineji being turned ont of the house of Cod. and there rere loud cries of "Shame on the rhurr-h:- .

The women fnn-ghr against their removal, |nd it was a rousideranio time before the disturbance was quelled. Similar scene* •n-ere enarted in Newcastle Cathedral, where tone of the women had (o be carried from the edifice and then were compelled to sepi; Ibe protection of the police from hr>stile «ovds ontslde. Siffragists raided numerous streets tn the West End, smashing windows. Several t! bem. were arreeted. •The popolace rushed a suffragette tuer 1 . iDjin Hyde Park .iud toro down tho platforn from whiclx speeches: -w-pre <3elivred. The jpoUce went to tuc aid o"r UlO suttiS-cUes.