THE SUFFRAGIST WAR

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 239, 2 July 1908, Page 7

THE SUFFRAGIST WAR

COMMONS AGAIN ATTACKED. THIRTY ARRESTS. "BEWARE OF A BLOTTED PAGE." POLICEMEN BUSY. .(by telegraph—press association—COPYßlGHT.) (Rec. July 1, 10.3 p.m.) London, July 1. The Convention of tho AVomen's Social Political Union, held at Caxton Hall, deputed Mrs. Pankhnrst and twelve other women to carry to tho House of Commons a resolution in favour of women's suffrage. Police escorted tho deputation to tho entrance of tho House, where an inspector stated that tho Sergeant-at-Arms forbado the deputation to enter, as tho Primri Minister, Mr. Asquith, declined to receive them, suggesting that they should present a written statement. This was reported to tho Caxton Hall Convention, which forthwith prepared to invade tho Houso of Commons. A huge and uproavious crowd gathered in Parliament Square, and for two hours' watched tho progress of tho assault upon tho Houso. Tho demonstrators . appeared in detached parties, and tho police promptly excluded them from tho Square. Twenty-eight wero arrested after a series of scuffles. Another, in a boat on the river, addressed persons who wero on Parliament Houso Terrace. Later, two women in a taxicab, armed with bags of stones, wero arrested for breaking tho windows of Mr. Asquith's houso in Downing Street. . ' ■' Tho' proceedings of the 'Convention then became excited. Replying to Lady Grove's expostulatory remark that it was ■ notoriously illegal, to walk in procession to tho Houso of Commons, Miss Pankhurst explained: " Yes, John Burns discovered that ono sometimes must bo a lawbreaker beforo being a lawmaker. Wo are only one bl»ek sheep of a flock., Wo women arc going to win. Let it be beforo somo tragedy, beforo some injury to ono of theso women, has blotted tho page."