BOMB OUTRAGES SUSPECT DISCHARGED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 108, 8 May 1913, Page 7

BOMB OUTRAGES SUSPECT DISCHARGED

CRICKET PAVILION DESTROYED ATTEMPT TO FIRE BUNGALOWS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 8, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, 7th Maj^ 1 Ada Ward, suspected of placing a bomb in the Grand Hotel, was discharged, the police being satisfied that she bad an alibi. Suffragettes burnt the cricket pavilion at Fullinm. and set fire to an unoccupied hotfso at Filichley. They also attempted to bum two bungalows at Bexhill. BOMB ,IN ST. PAUL'S. AT THE REAR OF THE ALTAR. LONDON, 7th May. A watchman discovered an unignlted bomb at the rear of the altar -in. Sti Paul's Cathedral. Another bomb was discovered in. a doorway tn Bouverie-street. A policeman conveyed it to the Daily News office and immersed it in water. WHAT THE BOMBS CONTAINED. A MYSTERY. (Received May 8, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, 7th May. The two bombs mentioned in thd previous cable contained detonators, clockwork, screws, bolts, and explosives. The ticking of the bomb in St. Paul's attracted the verger's notice. How' it was placed in the choir is a mystery. FIENDISHLY POWERFUL. (Received May 8, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, 7th May. The bomb found in St. Paul's was ot the si&e of a pound mustard tin. An explosion would have wrecked the choir, the marble reredos, and Grinling Gibbons'a famous carvings. The police describe the bomb as Bmall, but fiendishly powerful. SUFFRAGE BILL DEBATE. CONFLICT BETWEEN PARTY FRIENDS. LONDON, 7th May. The House of Commons was crowded during the Suffrage Bill debate, which was characterised by conflict between party friends on both sides. Mr. Asquith declared that the social structure would not be strengthened by granting the women the vote. He regretted the differences it had caueed with his colleagues, and if they had hinted at a change of leadership lie would have been prepared to resign, but no such hint had been given. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, emphasised Mr. Aequith'a fairness to his colleagues, who had favoured the Suffrage Bill, and said the sUpportere of the suffrage had l-e&son to deplore the unconsidered criminal conduct of the militant few. Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Lloyd George (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Mr. Birrell (Chief Seeretaty for Ireland), Mr. Buxton (President of the Board of Trade), Mr. Runciman (Minister for Agriculture), and Mr. Acland (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) voted for the Bill, and Mr. Aequith, Mr. M'Kenna (Home Secretary), Mr. Harcourt (Secretary of State for the Colonies.), and Colonel Seely (Secretary of State for War) voted against it. The majority of tho_ Nationalists opposed the Bill. There were a number of absentation* from voting on both sides, and twentytwo pairs were recorded. NEWSPAPER OPINIONS. CAUSE SUFFERS THROUGH MILITANCY. (Received May 8, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 7th May. The newspapers ascribe the worsened position of the women'e suffrage cause compared to what it was in 1911 and 1912, largely to the militancy. The Westminster Gazette says that Parliament felt that if it passed Mr. Dickinsoh's Bill it would be acting in the teeth of public opinion. "Yesterday's majority included many members who favour a small number of women voters, not 6,000,000 forthwith." NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN IN MONTREAL. NEW ZEALAND QUOTED. OTTAWA, 7th May. The National Council of Women, at the annual conference at Montreal, decided to support the women's su/jfrage movement. - A feature of the gathering was the address by Mrs. Leathes, of Toronto, dealing with the reforms that had been effected in New Zealand by means of the women's votes.