THE WOMEN'S WAR.

Mataura Ensign, 18 July 1914, Page 5

THE WOMEN'S WAR.

SUFFRAGETTE'S DEED. ANOTHER PICTURE SLASHED. BX BLBCTBIO TBLEGBAPH COPTBIbHT. PKE UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. Received July 18, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, July 17. A woman named Anne Hunt ; who had a butcher's cleaver concealed in her dress, viciously slashed Fane Millar's portrait of Carlyle several times, damaging the face seriously. An attendant had great difficulty in preventing the woman committing further damage. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Received Julv 18, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, July' 17. Hunt has been committed for trial. MOB STORMS MEETINC. POLES FOR PROTECTION. ■Received Julv 18, 9.10 a.m. LONiDOX, July 17. A mob armed with sticks and stones stormed a Suffragette meeting in Holland Park rink and smashed the windows. Suffragettes and their men friends barricaded the doors and used dozens of poles bayonet fashion against the mob. The seige was sustained until the police relieved the defenders. MRS PANKHURST'S EXPERIENCE. LONDON, July 17. ■ Mrs Pankliurst has in 15 months ■served 40 days. During her three years of sentence she has been released nine timet. HOME SECRETARY AND BAIL. BT BLBCTBIO TELEGRAPH COPYBIGHT, TIMES-SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLE. Received July 18, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, July 17. In the House of Commons Rt. Hon. R. McKeiuia when interrogated declined to interfere with a magistrate's discretion in, granting bail to Suffragettes pending their trial. He said thatho saw no objection' provided tliey gave' an undertaking that tliey would not commit other offences in the meantime. Mr MoKonna admitted that his house had been besieged during the morning but he escaped in a taxicab unobserved.