THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 56, 25 February 1913, Page 6

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

GUARDING UNIVERSITY EIGHT. MORE LETTER-BOX OUTRAGES * LONDON, Feb. 22.

Precautions are being taken to guard the Oxford eight boat at Putney against the suffragettes. Three letter-box outrages occurred at Lewishain. A postman was slightly burned. A fire occurred at Keinpton Park racecourse at the ladies' waiting-rooms adjoining the pavilion. The brigade speedily extinguished the flames. Suf* J fragettes are suspected. J One hundred actions are pending against Mrs Pankhurst and the members of the Women's Social and Political Union. Many Suffragette ' advocates 'and others, in newspaper correspondence, complain of Mrs Pankhurst's methods aiv' the Government ineptitude. The neswpapers, in discussing the problem, suggests heavy fines besides imnrisonment. The 'Standard' states that the Suffragettes are plotting to kidnap meml«>rs of the Cabinet, and adds that the Government is taking special precautions to prevent such an occurrence. Detectives are constantly in attendance of prominent members of the Cabinet.. Sir Robert Anderson (formerly head of the Criminal Investigation Department) suggests the bringing forward of a Bill declaring window smashers, criminal lunatics and that they be jsent asylums. AN ANGRY DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, Feb. 23. , There were disorderly Scenes at a women's suffrage meeting at Edmonton. The police broke up the meeting and cleared the building. Mrs Pankhurst Header of the militant Suffragettes) addressed a crowded meeting "at the Chelsea Town Hall. A large force* of police was stationed outside. Mrs Pankhurst got a mixed reception. In an hysterical speech sbo declared that women would do then* utmost to safeguard human life, but they mount to do everything necessary to settle the status of women once and for all. She defied the Government, who had sent others to prison, "while I, who incited them, am, free. How is the Government going to "end it?" A voice: "Pitt you in, tool" (Much uproar). There was , «tv angry demonstration outside tie .