THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 23 November 1911, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

WINDOW-SMASHING EPISODE

WOMEN CHAIN THEMSELVES TO

LAMP-POSTS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Nov. 22.

The suffragettes seized the bridles of constables' horses. Many chained themselves to railings and lamp-posts, and they were released with difficulty.

The arrested include Miss Billinghurst, ■ a cripple > whose hands' were lashed/bo a tricycle.

Whilst the police occupied Parliament Square well-organised: groups of suffragettes were engaged in twos and threes in window-smashing. First mixing with the crowds on the pavements, they suddenly produced stones, hammers, and catapults, *and smashed scores of windows of Government offices, private houses in Whitehall, Parliament street, Victoria street, the Strand, and also Lord Haldane's and Mr John Burns' private residences, the Daily Mail's headquarters, and the Daily News office. The public had many marvellous escapes.