VOTES FOR WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 112, 7 November 1912, Page 7

VOTES FOR WOMEN

MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES MORE WINDOW-SMASHING. By Telegraph,— Frees Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 6th November. There has been a recrudescence of win-dow-breaking in Oxford and Bond Streets. The outbreak is described as a protest against the defeat of, Mr, Snowden's amendment to the Home Rule Bill to confer the franchise on women in Ireland. Among tho windows smashed by the suffragettes .were those of the Insurance Commissioner's office. Numerous arrests were made, FINES IMPOSED. " (Received November 7, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 6th November. Fines have been imposed on some of the Oxford-street and Bond-street suffragette window smashers, or in default a fortnight's imprisonment. Others were remanded owing' to tho seriousness of the damage. DEMONSTRATION AT ALBERT HALL. MESSAGES FROM LORD HALDANE AND SIR E. GREY. LOND*ON, 6th November. At a demonstration organised by the National Union of Suffrage Societies in the Albert Hall a letter was read from Lord Haldane. Lord Chancellor, in which he expressed the conviction that nothing could keep back the cause of woman s suffrage. Recent events were irrelevant to tbe merits of the controversy, and he hoped the House of Com' mona h^d under-rated the folly of the few fanatics. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, telegraphed his sympathy with the movement.