RAID ON SUFFRAGETTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15482, 13 December 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

RAID ON SUFFRAGETTES.

STUDENTS' REPRISALS. ;*||j TURNING THE TABLES. §|§ Swift retribution has overtaken Bristol ■??■' suffragettes for having burnt down the- ??* pavilion in the playing fields of the Bris- '■-•*;' tol University. Their headquarters weres stormed recently by the 'Varsity- students and completely wrecked, " and a bonfira made of all their stock-in-trades So secretly and swiftly, did the., students, act that the authorities ■ were, taken by surprise, and no. arrests were', made. At. five o'clock about a '.hundred..- students rushed out of the univereity:;b'i]ildin'g. jn a. body; armed" with- 'tone;; bricks' hatchets and sticks, and n-ade i::t., .'<l<--." M!.f?r4gnte headquarters in Clifton Riad.'Yn'caFbc. The premises ■;;re suhji : ted ; i:> a.had of missies, and.in a few seconds'...a;i 'the.win., <Id'ws were smashed. .-'were broken in, and the .student-/-j.inn.d'.mci the building. ■ • There ; \.wti'men'iij charge .at .the lime 'and lie-.'.*. ■- ■ i j-.r <i t/> the back and jumped ..'from'-;T-s.»i-ond-storey window, fortunately ■■«.;,h > it-,' m- ' The 'stairway To.idini-.to, the' uppor'rrtoms was hacked aw-n-,'" and :h,--r- l':ti '.s, 3, roll- top '-.desk, typewriter-, p -ctuiV.? . a,'resmashed .'and. thrown. iii'to;t he 1 -road way '"• The students.. aifo" v-zeil nil'the .Looks and literature \* ' -a'i 'i -as j,h?.i:a« arid threw tkmrintj a-? heap .-. T>in -:ii-'and. I chemicals *m-poured ;on. ta'tb,«.-m-.^s : j debris and Tired/ : 1 hf/.hre. brigade was .summoned ami -the students ,aU': Ript/>pi.cv j tarry off jttip ,siipei>'!'c'ndf in ••» h : : ;,r •ed !on a motor ehgine,-.. , 'but''.;by? a .d plo.rntic. I speech he» caused them toVfJpsi t. .<' -There : was then little tlnn' : e howsver-'-'.pf 'laying anything : from.the wreck ■; *~ ! -v '."s■■,: I : I'heii raiMng'.'thru : < beers ! i''.po;ico and liremcii.,the,stuilfiitH'div!-. J back', to ; their own -quarters. V'Ow 'a ler I wards declared When : the .-.women .burnt down our pavilion . they .'left;; this .insolent, note: .; Business before pleasure:V-'flob- | house will pay..': Well th.-V -have •'*•.:>, something to pay for themselves hoi-, ": " '■ i In the directory-" the "name's- '-'.-Miss Kenny and. Mrs.. Do\e'. llcox appear, as the occupiers. .' Both are..'now.- undergoing | imprisonment.. During ..the ' e'-enin-;- Uw I students leceived a ''.number'.'of. congratullatory telegrams. '[- " ; ■'.'■'-. : >-'