WILFUL WOMEN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 613, 2 July 1908, Page 2

WILFUL WOMEN.

BAD ATTACK OF POLITICAL EXCITEMENT. MRS PANKHURST AND CO. "SCUFFLES ;AND~SOME SMASHED :; WINDOWS. • _ • [BT ELECTBIO T_L«BB_PH— COPTaWH*.] [PBB PBESS' ASSOCIATION.]' London, July 1. The Women's Social Political. Union Convention at Carton Mall deputed Mrs Pankhurst and twelve others to oarry a resolution to tlie House of Uommons. v The police escorted them to the entrance of the House, where <bhe Inspector stated that the ber-geant-aH-Arms forbade the deputation to enter, as Mr Asquith declined to receive them. . He suggested Mat they present a written staitemeht.Tiiis was reported to the Caxton Hall Convention, which forthwith prepared to invade the House ;of Commons. A huge and uproaribU3 crowd gathered in Parliament Square for two hours and watched the progress of the assault upon the Honse. The demonstrators appeared iii detached parties and the police promptly excluded them from the Square. Twenty-eight were arrested, «iter a series of scuttles. Another party, in a boat, addressed the occupants of Parliament House Terrace. Later, two women in a taxioab, and armed with bags of stones, jWere arrested for smashing the wiridtows of Mr Asquith's liouse in Ddwjiihg street. Proceedings .at the: Convention were of an excited nature. Replying to Lady Grove's expostulatory remark that it was notoriously illegal to walk in procession to the House of Commons, Miss Pankhurst exclaimed: "Yes, John Burns discovered that one sometimes must be a lawbreaker before being a law-maker. We have only on© black sheep in the flock. We women are going to winlet it be before some tragedy, before some injury to one of these women, has blotted the page." (Received July 1, 8. 10 a.m.) London, July 1. The crowd at Westminster assembled in connection with the .suffragette's demonstration, ia, estimated to have numbered 7500. Many frantio and dangerous rushes were made to avoid the horses of the police. The mobs included many howling hooligans.