PARASOLS AND STICKS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8482, 17 July 1913, Page 10

PARASOLS AND STICKS

THE SUFFRAGETTES VIOLENT STRUGGLE V.TTH THE POLICE. By Telegraph—Press Associalivn —Copyright LONDON, July 14. Miss Annie Kenney, the suffragette convicted of conspiracy, but released on license after “hunger-striking,” appeared on a platform at the Pavilion, and auctioned her two prison licenses for twelve pounds for the benefit of the Women’s Social and Political Union’s funds.

Mrs Pankburst, also out on license, also came on to the platform, amidst tumultuous cheering. Both were arrested. When leaving they had a violent struggle with tho police, and Mrs Pankburst escaped in a taxi-cab. A crowd of women beat off the detectives with parasols and sticks. A constable’s coat was torn off in the rncloc. STATE APARTMENTS REOPENED. (Sydney "Sun” Special Cable.) LONDON, July 15. The Windsor state apartments have been re-opened to visitors. They are guarded by the police. Bags, sticks and umbrellas are removed from visitors before they enter. [The state apartments were closed to tho public on account of the operations of tho suffrag&ttos. J MRS PANKHURST’S CHALLENGE. A VIOLENT STRUGGLE. LONDON, July 16. Mrs Pankburst, at the Pavilion, declared that Parliament must give votes or kill the women. She challenged the Government to kill them or give them freedom. Suddenly detectives, with their heads down to protect their faces against male suffragists brandishing sticks and women using hatpins and umbrellas, dashed into a solid group of women in the centre of which was Mrs Kenny. A violent struggle ensued, and men and women were bowled over in attempting to rescue Miss Kenny. Eventually Miss Kenny was forced into a taxi-cab by the detectives, who drove off amid execrations and shouts of “Shame, comrades!” from the crowd of women, many of whom, with tho detectives, bore evidence of tho fray. Mrs Pankburst has not been arrested. She escaped during the confusion.