WIRES CUT BY MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 46, 24 February 1913, Page 7

WIRES CUT BY MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES

A NEWSPAPER'S SUGGESTION ,WHAT POLITICAL PARTIES SHOULD AGREE ON. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received February 24, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd February. Suffragettes cut a large number of telegraph wires near Newcastle. The newspaper Observer suggests that all political parties should agree not to support any Suffrage Bill while militancy continues. MRS. PANKHURST HAS A MIXED RECEPTION. HYSTERICAL SPEECH. MUCH UPROAR. LONDON, 22nd February. Mrs. Pankhurst addressed a crowded meeting at Chelsea Town Hall. A large force of police was outside. Mrs. Pankhurst had a reception, and in a hysterical speech declared that the women would do their utmost to safeguard human life, but they meant to do everything necessary to settle the status of woman once for all. She defied the Government to arrest her. "It is wrong that the women who committed the oflences aro sent to prison while I, who incited them, am free! How is the Government going to end it?" A voice : "Put you in the Zoo I" Much uproar and an angry demonstration took place outside the hall. A hundred actions are pending against Mrs. Pankhuret. Disorderly scenes took place at a women's suffrage meeting at Edmonton. The police broke up the proceedings and cleared the building. FIRE ON KEMPTON PARK. LETTEIVBOTOUTRAGES. HEAVY FINeTsUGGESTED. LONDON, 22nd February. A fire broke out at Kempton Park racecourse, in the ladies' waiting-rooms adjoining the Royal Pavilion. The fire brigade speedily extinguished the flames. Suffragettes are suspected of having caused the outbreak. Precautions are being taken to guard the_ Oxford's Eight Tioat at Putney against possible damage ab the hands of tta auffragottes. . Three letter-box outrages are reported from Lewisham. A postman was slightly burned. Members "of the Women's Social and Political Union, many of the suffragette advocates, and other newspaper correspondents, complain of Mrs. Pankhurst's methods and the Government's ineptitude. The newspapers, discussing the problem, suggest heavy fines besides imprisonment. DETECTIVES MIND CABINET MINISTERS. TALK OF KIDNAPPING. LONDON? 22nd February. The Standard states that suffragettes are plotting to kidnap members of the Cabinet, and adds that the Government is taking special precautions to prevent this. Detectives are constantly attendant upon prominent members of the Cabinet. "WINDOW-SMASHERS." SHOULD BE~DECLARED CRIMINAL LUNATICS. LONDON, 22nd February. .Sir Robert Anderson, formerly head of the Criminal Investigation Department. suggests that a Bill should be passed declaring "window -smashers" to be criminal lunatics, and to be sent to the asylums.