MAD MILITANTS

Evening Star, Issue 15514, 9 June 1914, Page 8

MAD MILITANTS

THE DEGRAHATION OF WOMEN. scjwi>&Lous church SCENES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Juna 8. Extraordinary scenes were enacted at the Brompton Oratory, when 20 suffragettes chanted the suffragette litany, and one stood in the aisle shouting: "For God's sake, stop forcible feeding!" The congregation, composed chiefly of women, some of them prominent in society, fiercely attacked the suffragettes. Some hats were torn off and dresses disarranged, while women had hair streaming down their backs, and others were bleeding from their months. But for the vergers protection the suffragettes would have been treated much worse. Eventually the vergers carried them out of the church. Further scenes were enacted outeide. As a suffragette was entering a taxicab a lady member of the congregation pulled her out and thrashed her. Another suffragette, whose teeth were injured by a man's fist, lay at full length outside and refused to budge, the people trampling across her.

A DRASTIC PROPOSAL. 'LET THEM DIE.' LONDON, June 8. The ' Standard,' in a leading article headed 'Let Them Die,' refers to the suffragettes' acts of vandalism, arson, disloyalty, blasphemy, and sacrilege, and urges the adoption of a short Bill indemnifying the Homo Secretary and the prison governors in the event of hungerstrikers dying. The writer says in conclusion : '• It may be that, after all, they will not die."

(London ' Times ' and Sydney ' Sun' Services.)

LONDON, June 8. (Received June 9, at 8.55 a.m.)

A crowd attacked some suffragettes at Ilford and pursued them to the local leader's residence, the windows of which they smashed. -AT THE HORSE SHOW. MORE MANIACAL OUTBURSTS. LONDON, June 8. (Received .June 9, at 10.20 a.m.) Russia won the King Edward Cup at the horse show.

Their Majesties were present when a suffragette attempted to enter the arena and shrieked at the King. The police carried her out. Later three others were carried out kicking and screaming. The Trinity College students" raided the Dublin suffragettes' office and threw their furniture out of the windows.