THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11865, 26 February 1913, Page 4

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received February 26, at 0.20 a.m. London, February 25. A .suffragette meeting in the Pavilion Music Hall developed into a succession of lights with male interrupters, who successfully resisted their ejectment. Mrs Drummond, in appealing for contributions to the lighting fund, said the suffragettes did not require gunpowder. One person promised ■a. quantity of paraffin. Another .speaker declared' that Mrs Pankhurst's arrest would increase the militancy one hundredfold. The suffrage-Lies interrupted Mr John .Burns while ho was speaking at Battersen. and several of them were ejected. Mr Burns said that he meant to break down this tyranny of organised blackguardism. It was in the interests of the democracy that such despotism, which bad discredited and thrown back the women's cause for vears, shbuld bo terminated. Received February 2G, at 9.15 a.m. London, February 25. There was a large crowd at the police court awaiting Mrs Pankhurst, hisses largely preponderating over suffragette cheers. Mrs Pankhurst was remanded, bail being., allowed. The - Chronicle say s that Lilian Lenton's release makes the criminal law a farce. ;. The mob. pelted suffragettes at Croy- ■ don with tomatoes and eggs, and smnsii- , ed '.he windows of the'suffragettes' head--1 quarters. • Letters, .in the Forest Hill pillarboxes have been set on fire.