'EITHER DEAD OR ASLEEP.'

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 72, 17 March 1914, Page 7

'EITHER DEAD OR ASLEEP.'

SUFFRACETTE ON THE NATION. MAKY HICHARDSON * JUSTICE. LONDON, March 12. Man' Kichardson, who has frequently hoen arrested and released under the •'CiU am' Mouse" Act, and who was <omi»' t t«.-<l for trial for inflicting several rents in t he picture of Venus, its r'lhie <£-l- r '. ( W> thereby being depreiiy £IO.OOO to £IO,OOO, appeared at- lion' Street weak from ''hun^er«triking.'' She saul she had been an art student lint cared more for iustice than fcr art. The nation was either dead or asleep. Women vainly knocked at the doors of Ministers and Archbishops and even .) !at of the King. SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. LONDON. March 12. Jhirv Richardson was sentenced to R ; x months' imprisonment. LONDON, March 12. The magistrate in sentencing Richardson commented on the anomaly of ilie maximum punishment of six months' imprisonment for damaging ivmks of art and 18 months' for smashing windows.

1.-ORTTNK TO SUFFRAGETTES. ])r Ethel Smyth, the composer, who js a militant Suffragette, announces that sh,.' has refrained her will so that the jnteroft on all the money she leaves will no to funds of the Women's Social and Political Union until the franchise is extended to women (states an English paper). "After my death and for as long as either Mrs or Miss Pankhurst are" alive to shape our policy," she state*, "the interest on the capital will In paid into the coffers of the union. Once votes for women, no matter on what basis, is securely on the Statute Book, the money reverts on the original legatees.'' PALACES CLOSED. LONDON, March 12. The- Holyrood, Kensington and Kew Palaces, the Albert Memorial Chapel, and the Royal Stables at Windsor have also been closed. Art students are excluded from the National Gallery. Amerie.i.'i and other visitors are indignant at being unable to see the art treasures. DEMAND FOR SEVERITY. LONDON, March 12. There is a widespread demand for more severity to be shown towards the militant Suffragettes. Some letters are appearing in the press suggesting that they should be allowed to starve. SCULPTRESS AND DRUMSTICK. STRIKF.S POLICE SERGEANT. LONDON, March 12. Nora Smyth, a sculptress, was fined i'l.j for striking a police sergeant on the neck with a drumstick during a demonstration in Bow Street. WINDOW-BREAKING AND FIRE. LONDON. March 12. Helen Crawlord wats .sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment for smashing the windows of the Army Recruiting Office 'at Glasgow. A mansion at Stowarton was set on fire hy Suffragettes. Both these acts were protests against Mrs Paiikhurst's arrest. THE ARREST OF MRS PANKHURST LONDON, .March 12. A deputation uf Suffragettes waited upon the Glasgow magistrates a-nd protested against the alleged brutal treatment by the police of Mrs Pankhurst 'the militant Suffragette leader who was recently arrested there).

The magistrates crdercd the chief constable to submit a report.