SYLVIA'S SERVICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9811, 12 June 1914, Page 5

SYLVIA'S SERVICE.

OPEN WINDOW FOR PULPIT. SUFFRAGETTES CLAIM DIVINE GUIDANCE. CROWD MOBS ATTACK WOMEN. (BT ELBOTBIC TsLBGBira—COFYBIOR.) (PBB PBBM AMdfcUTION.) Received June 12, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, June 11. Prior to her procession to interview the Premier Sylvia Pankhurst held a semireltgioua service at her East End residence. A "portion of Scripture was read from an open window and Sylvia offered a prayer for the "Cat and Mouse" prisoners. The crowd outside resented the irreverence and the protest was renewed when Sylvia prayed for Divine strength to carry out her purpose. She concluded: "I may die!" and a man in the crowd retorted: "Why don't you!" " "When Bertha Ryland, the suffragette [picture slasher, was committed for trial I she shouted: "No power on earth can stop i our movement, which is working with Divine guidance!" Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested while the procession was disorganised through a brief congestion of traffic There was a slight scuffle.

Dense crowds thronged the Strand and {Whitehall. The police barred progress to ; the Strand, and the procession was swallowed up in the crowd of unsympathetic j spectators. Eventually a deputation of a doren were allowed to enter Saint Stephen's. M r P. C. Illingworth (Government Whip) received them and stated that Mr Atquith was unable to see them, but requested them to send a memorial of their grievances. There were wild scenes at the Women's Liberal Federation meeting at Caxton Hall. Many suffragettes were ejected by the stewards, energetically assisted by the Indies. A mob of several hundreds attacked two parties of suffragettes at the Agricultural Show at Portsmouth, throwing bricks and other missiles. The police rescued them. Elsewhere in Portsmouth a crowd broke up a meeting and the police had considerable oifhculty in rescuing the speakers. OUTRAGE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. BOMB UNDER CORONATION CHAIR. EXPLOSION HEARD IN THE COMMONS

Received Jun« 12. 11.5 a.m. LONDON. June 11. An explosion occurred at 5.30 in Wc«tTmnster Abbey undo r the coronation chair (on which all the Kings are. crowned) in Edward the Confessor's Chanel, and the chair was badly chipped Otherwise the damage was slight. The police are now in possession of the Abbey and are prosecuting rigorous enquiries. Two women have been detained. Two explosions were heard in the House of Commons, and a considerable distance down Victoria street. The bomb was deposited in a bag, which is now in possession of the police. GOVERNMENT~SATISFIED. WITH HARRYING EFFECTS OF CVT AND MOUSE ACT. LONDON. J U ne H. Its is expected that the militant problem will be discussed in the Commons on Thursday on the Home Office vote. It is understood that the Government does not eontemplate heroic legislation and will confine its present action to testing the responsibility of subscribers io the women's funds or damaee to property. Otlmrwi.se the *Z rn T?u k satipfi(Hl with ih « barrving effect of the Cat and Mouse Act. Many oftenders who were convicted have given Pledges to abstain from militancv. and others have served their sentence, while the minority, not exceeding twenty, succeeded making their hunger striko successful