MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 75, 12 March 1913, Page 5

MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES.

PETITION TO THE KING. ’ London, March 11. The women’s petition to the King explained that militancy endangered public and private property and brought the administration of the law into contempt. They would watt and see whether the Speech contained any promise of legislation. The petitioners had heard that it was possible that the Government .would submit to coercion. A bill granting the vote was the only cure for militancy. Mrs. Pankhurst, speaking at 'the Pavilion Music Hall, said that never until 1913 had an attempt to present a petition been described as an insult to the King. The women’s actions, even when historically correct, were characterised nowadays as extraordinary. The petition was correctly and respectfully worded. She defied the Government to pass repressive legislation which would be followed by failure.

UNRULY WOMEN SENTENCED.

(Received 12, 11.0 a.m.)

London, March 11

Yesterday’s unruly suffragettes were sentenced to three’ weeks’ imprisonment, in default of sureties; two others to a month in default of paying the fine for smashing the Home Office windows as a protest against yesterday’s arrests. A TWO-SIDED HOAX. A great stream of vehicles is delivering at the suffragette headquarters a variety of goods from coal to ginger-beer. The hoax is a greater annoyance to .tradesmen than it is to the suffragettes.