SUFFRAGETTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12259, 9 June 1914, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTES.

■ [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received June 9. at 8.15 a.m. London, June 8. A crowd attacked suffragettes at llford ami' pursued/ them to the local, leader's residence, of which they smashed the window*. Extraordinary scenes occurred at Brompton Oratory, where twenty suffragettes chanted the suffragette liiiany. One stood mi the able shouting, "For G-cct's sake, stop forcible, feeding!" The congregation, in which women were prominent, fiercely ataekedi the suffragettes, and some hats were torn off and! dresses disordered. Hair was streaming down: tli? backs of others, and there were bleeding mouths* But for the vergers' protection the suffra- , get-tes would have- beam treated' much worse. Eventually the vergers carried out the women. There were further scenes outside. As a. suffragette was entering a taxicab a lady member of the congregation pulled her out and thrashed her. Another suffragette, whose teeth had been injured by a man's fist, lay full length outside and refused to trudge, and the people trampled' across her. Received June 9, at 10.20 a.m.. London, June 8. A suffragette at the. Horse. Show attempted to enter the arena. She shrieked at the King until the police carried her out. Later three suffragettes were carried out, kicking and screaming. Trinity College students raided the Dunlin suffragette offices and threw the furniture out of the windows. Received June 8, at 2.5 p.m.

London, June 7. _. Sylvia Pankhurst, in a speech in the East End of London, said when she saw Mr Asquith next Wednesday she would ask the deputation not only to plead with, but threaten him. She did not care about herself. She asked them to carry on the movement, because it might happen she would not be alive on Wednesday. She was determined that the East End people would settle the question on Wednesday. London, June. 8. The Standard, in" a. leading article headed "Let Them Die," refers to the suffragettes', vandalism, aTsoh, disloyalty; blasphemy, .and sacrilege, and urges the adoption of a short Bill indemnifying the Home Secretary and the prison governors in the event of hun-ger-strikers dying. The Standard adds: "It may be that, after all, they would not die."

CHARACTER OF MOVEMENT ALTERED. Times and Sydney Sun Service*. London, June 6. The character of the suffragette movement has completely altered. Originally -volunteers did the work; now it is run by well-paid women, who, in many cases, give up other employto join the militants, because the pay is better.-