WOMEN'S RAID

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 5

WOMEN'S RAID

ON BUCKINGHAM PALACE MANY SCUFFLES SIXTY-SEVEN ARRESTS. (By Telegraph.— Pres* Association.— Copyright,) (Received May 23, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd May. In connection with the raid by Suffragettes on Buckingham Palace, one hundred women marched to Grosvenor-street, and hurled themselves against the closed gates. An infuriated clergyman, in his shirt sleeves, had many scuffles, but the police readily repelled the more serious disorders. On Constitution Hill, women armed with shears tried to cut the bridles of the mounted police. Others, with Indian clubs, attacked the constables or flung themselves on the police, but were thrown to the ground. While a policeman was temporarily blinded with paint, a woman struck him with a club, and ho was taken to the hospital in an unconscious state. A number of bedraggled women ran the gauntlet of an unsympathetic crowd, and were later arrested and carried to the Wellington Arch, where they were locked in a room. They smashed the windows of the room, and broke up the furniture." The crowd recognised Miss Billington, who was severely maltreated. The police found her crying bitterly, and escorted her to safety. Sixty-seven arrests were made, including several who took part in disturbances during the night at Whitehall, where the Government offices are strongly guarded. The prisoners from Wellington Arch were taken to Scotland Yard. Many escaped to the roof and addressed the crowd on the Embankment. They were recaptured. MRS. DRUMMOND AGAIN. RELEASED AND~RE-ARRESTED. SITTING ON MR.IhCENNA'S DOORSTEP. LONDON, 22nd May. Mrs. Drummond, the Suffragette, has been released after hunger-striking. Despite her weakness she refused to go to a nursing home, but went instead to Mr. M'Kenna's (Home Secretary) house, and sat on his doorstep, where the police re-arrested her. The police raided a house in Maida, Vale and arrested five women, and {»lso seized important documents and many bags containing flints and hammers. It is believed that a window-smashing camSaign was proposed, as a protest against Irs. i'ankhurst's arrest. AT THE POLICE COURT RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR. SHOES THROWN AT tfHE MAGISTRATE. (Received May 23, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd May. The Suffragettes arrested near the Palace behaved riotously when brought up at the Bow-street Police Court. They hurled shoes and papers al the Magis* trate, and tried to climb over tho dock railings. Packets of white powder were hurled indiscriminately by the crowd in Court, which was cleared after exciting struggles. One woman was sentenced to ten days imprisonment, and others were bound over. AT THE PICTURE GALLERIES DAMAGE DONE. TWO WOMEN~ARRESTED. ' ' (Received May 24, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd May. a A Suffragette smashed five pictures in the National Gallery. Another smashed pictures in the Royal Academy. The woman entered the Venetian room with a hammer conclealed in her clothing, and smashed all »he pictures within her reach. She slightly damaged _ the "Madonna, and Child, with Infant Saints," "Madonna and Child," "Christ's in the Garden," a portrait of a Doge of Venice, and others. The woman was arrested. / Simultaneously, another Suffragette at the Academy with a cleaver smashed George Clausen's "Prinmvera," which was damaged to the extent of £250. She also was arrested. KING & QUEEN_AT THE THEATRE SUFFRAGETTE ANNOYANCES. "YOU ARE~~THE TSAR." (Received May 23, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd May. % The King and Queen attended a matinee at His Majesty's Theatre. A Suffragette chained to a seat in the stalls addressed King George. She shouted < "You arc the Tsar! and was removed, struggling. Another, chained to an adjoining seat, shrieked "Gagged !" until a mechanic removed the seat bodily. A third clambered on to the stage, and harangued King George. She was pushed into the auditorium by the actors. A similar interruption followed, seven women and two men being ejected. The police were compelled to rescue the ejecbeds from a hostile crowd in the street. Suffragettes exploded a bomb at _ the Rosehall Church, Edinburgh. Little damage was done.