CONSPIRACY ALLEGED

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8054, 7 March 1912, Page 5

CONSPIRACY ALLEGED

AGAINST SUFFRAGETTES MRS LAWRENCE AND MISS PANKHURST ARRESTED. By Telegraph—Pres* Association—Copyright (Received March 6, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, March G. Mr Pethick Lawrence (joint editor of “ Votes for Women ”), his wife, and Miss Christabel Pankhurst have been arrested on a charge of conspiring to incite to damage property. Tho police have removed documents from tlie AVomen’s Social and Political Union offices. Owing to the. recent suffragette outbreaks- the State apartments at Hampton Court, Kensington, and Windsor Castle have been closed. Seventeen suffragettes _ were sentenced to imprisonment with hard lak°The Women’s Freedom League has issued a. manifesto signed by Mrs Dcs•pard and others announcing a truce 'while awaiting the Premier’s pledges. STERNER SENTENCES. REAL AMAZONIAN TACTICS PROMISED. LONDON, March 5. Tho magistrates are sentencing win-dow-breakers to hard labour. Included in those so sentenced is Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, of Harley street, who got six weeks. Many others were sent to gaol for two months. Tho sentences were received with applause in court.

The “Daily News/’. hitherto a supporter of the suffragettes, says the Government cannot longer permit society to be disorganised by a few outlaws who have declared war on the social order. Decent events have destroyed their cause in Parliament, where the anti-suffragettes are in the ascendant. Mrs Pethick Lawrence, addressing the Women’s Social and Political Union, of which she is treasurer,, said that now that private property had been attacked, the public, in its own interest, would be compelled to coerce the Government.

Miss. Christabel Pankhurst defended the wrecking of innocent tradesmen’s windows, on the ground that no section was innocent. If Friday’s method was insufficient, the women would terrorise the whole of the male community.