THE WRECKERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8364, 26 February 1913, Page 7

THE WRECKERS

MRS. PANKHURST ARRESTED CHARGE UNDER MALICIOUS DAMAGE ACT. By Telegraph — Press Association —Copyright LONDON, February 24. Mrs Pankhurst is to be charged under the Malicious Damage to Property Act, with incitement, in connection with the outrage at Walton-on-Hill, where a house to be used by Mr Lloyd George (Chancellor of the Exchequer), was wrecked. She has been arrested and removed to Epsom. Mrs Pankhurst, at a meeting at Cardiff on February 20th, amid uproar, admitted that women attempted to blow up the Chancellor because they wanted to wake him up. She said that while an army of men was guarding the golf links a successful piece of guerilla warfare, had been carried out. She accepted the responsibility, and said that, if arrested, she would carry out a hunger strike. She added: “They cannot torture me very long. They must let me die or go. If I drop out, a hundred more will take my place." Speaking a few days ago in the Chelsea Town Hall, Mrs Pankhurst said:—“lt is wrong that the women who committed the offences are sent to prison while I, who incited them, am free! How is the Government going to end it?” A HUNGER-STRIKER RELEASED IN STATE OF COLLAPSE. LONDON, February 24. Lilian Lenton, one of the two young women arrested for the K.ew Gardens tea-room outrage, has been released from prison. She was* in a ' state of collapse, having refused to take food. WEEK’S DAMAGE, £6,000 MISS KENNY DEFIES GOVERNMENT. SUFFRAGETTES REFUSED A HEARING. LONDON, February 24. Suffragettes did £6OOO worth of damage last week. . Miss Annie Kenny, speaking at Bow, dared the authorities to allow women to die in prison. In the event of its doing so, it would make' militants by the hundreds. Mrs Despard was forced to abandon a meeting at Thornton Heath, and other suffragettes were refused a hearing at Wimbledon. A party bearing sandwich hoards at Preston was pelted with eggs and refuse, and obliged to take shelter m shops. Seats on Hampstead Heath were stencilled with green paint, “Votes for women 1” The paint" damaged visitors' dresses. Signal wires were cut on the Great Western railway at Newport. The “Daily Citizen” says jhe public temper is rising against Mrs Pankhurst’s militancy. The present methods are injuring the cause more than the anti-suffrage leagues are. SUCCESSION OF FIGHTS SULTRY MEETING IN MUSIC HALL. (Received February 26, 0.20 a.m.) LONDON, February 25. On Sunday a suffragette meeting in the Pavilion Music Hall developed into a succession of fights with male ininterrupters, who sucessfuliy resisted ejectment. Mrs Drummond, in appealing for contributions to the fighting fund, said that she did not require gun-powder. One gift promised was a quantity of paraffin. Another speaker declared that the Pankhurst arrest would increase militancy a hundred-fold. “ ORGANISED BLACKGUARDISM ” MR JOHN BURNS MEANS TO BREAK IT DOWN. (Received February 26, 0.20 a.m.) LONDON, February 26. Suffragettes interrupted Mr John Burns (President of the Local Government Board), speaking at Battersea. Several were ejected. Mr Burns said that he meant to break down this tyranny of organised blackguardism. It was in ‘the interest of democracy that such a despotism, which had desecrated and thrown back the women’s cause for years, should be terminated.