SUFFRAGETTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12260, 10 June 1914, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTES.

[By Electric .Telegraph—Copyright.] . (Per Press Association.) Received June 9, at 10.15 p.m. London, June 9. Yvette Gilbert, in an open lfetter to the militants, recalling, her. staunch support of the cause, deplores the present militancy, and says: "You Idse your dignity when you lose your seifcommand, and yon kill and yoit assassinate an admirable cause." Received June 10, at 10 a.m. London, June 9.

All those who were arrested in the Maidavale raid have been committed for trial, excent the girl Emriieline Hall. '

Many churches and public bxlildings throughout the country are guarded clay and night. • The police, raided the suffragettes' new headquarters in:: Tothill street, Westminster, and seized many documents.

Ivy Bon for destroying Sargent's portrait of Henry James has been sentenced to six * months' imprisonment. Bertha Ryland has been arrested for slashing Eomney's portrait of a'Boy in the Art Gallery at Birmingham. .Sir P. Burne-Jones, interviewed, said' the hunger-strikers should be allowed to die after being offered plenty of food. Nearest relatives should be admitted to their cell. Father Bernard Yaughan and many others expressed similar views. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Jime 9. A suffragette has been sentenced to seven days' imprisonment in: connection with the ireeenfc raid at WestmmsteAbbey. She left, the Court, shouting, "We have tk> King, hut tlxnnk God we' have Mrs Pankhurst."