THE MILITANTS

Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 8

THE MILITANTS

SCENE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. (London ‘Times’ and Sydney ’Sun ’Services.) LONDON, July 6. During the Sunday afternoon service at Westminster Abbey Mrs Dacre Fox. stylishly dreesed, and supported by another suffragette, walked up the main aisle, ami commenced denouncing what idle called thd torture of women. The great congregation sat- silent, but a detective hurried up the aisle, placed a handker hief over Airs Dacre Fox’s mouth, and removed her unresisting. Both the women were airestcd and convoyed to Holloway Prison. FOOLISH TALK. SYDNEY. July 8. (Received July 8, at 9.15 a.m.) Miss Adela Pankhunst has arrived here. When interviewed, she said that militancy was not ruining their cause. It was no use trying to convert people by any other means. The whole British Cabinet favored the vote to women with the exception of Mr Asquith and Mr Harcourt, who, for party reasons, feared that women would constitute an unreckoned force at the elections. This kept them from giving women the vote. There was nothing for -women to do but continue their present means until the Government got tired of seeing law and order upset. Then the Government would give women the vote.