MAD MILITANTS

Evening Star, Issue 15513, 8 June 1914, Page 6

MAD MILITANTS

FOOLISH SOCIETY C4IRLS.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. June 5. The suffragettes who created the scene iat tho Court reception were Mary and Pleanor Blomfield, two daughters of the late Sir Arthur William Blomiield, A.R.A., and crand-daughters of » former Bishop of London. Mary alone addrfessed the Three invitations for the second Court were cancelled. Lady Blomfield states that her daughters did not accompany her on Thursday. They arrived later without "her knowledge. She did not see the incident, which trie whole family deplore. The 'Daily Express' states that Queen Mary, referring to Mary Blomfield's action, said that if it were the worst thing the women had done it might perhaps be forgiven.

WELL-PAID MARTYRS. (London 'Times' and Sydney ' Sun' Service*.) TENDON, June 5. It is asserted that the character of the suffragette movement has completely altered. Originally volunteers did the work, but it is now ruii by well-paid women, who in many cases are* giving up other employment to join the militants because the pav is better. , , Mrs Freda Graham wa-s released as the i-esult of .a hunger strike. THE HOUSE OF " BONNIE DUNDEE." LONDON, June 6. A suffragette attempted to blow up Dun>liope Castle. Dundee, famous a® tfhe residence of Graham of Claverhouse, but failed, the fuae burning out.

AN IMPOTENT GOVERNMENT. SOME FOREIGN CRITICISMS. LONDON, June 7. The French. Press are amaraed over the spectacle offered to the world by Great Britain in consequence of the doings of suffragette*. The German papers are astonished that no remedy can be found. The American Press say that the gravest feature of the danger is that the movement is spreading indefinitely.

THE TRAGIC FARCE CONTINUES. A VAN SMASHED. LONDON, Juno 7. (Received Juno 8, at 8.45 a.m.) A crowd broke up a suffragette meeting at Hornsey. The suffragettes also had a hostile inception at Hastings, where they smashed a van. The police dispersed their assailants. Some suffragettes who were found ooncealed in the Reading Post Office ware ejected. Several suffragette disturbances occurred in Brampton 0-patory to-day. THE GOVERNMENT WAKE UP.

WILL PROSECUTE A SOLICITOR'S CXERK. LONDON, June 7. (Received June 8, at 10.5 a.m.) Some suffragettes burned an untenanted house at High Wycombe. The Public Prosecutor has started proceedings againsTi Arthur Barnett, a solicitor's clerk, whose firm represented certain suffragettes, for conveying letters and drugs to Grace Roe in Hnlloway Gaol. The evidence -will show that "the drugs were used to produce violent sickness after forcible feeding, and so secure the early liberation of the prisoner.