WOMEN’S FRANCHISE

Otago Witness, Issue 3112, 5 November 1913, Page 29

WOMEN’S FRANCHISE

FURTHER INCENDIARISM. LONDON, October 27. A large residence at Bramshott, the property of Mr Theodore M'Kenna, the Home Secretary’s brother, was set on fire by the suffragettes, and totally destroyed. The house, was unoccupied. November 3. Some suffragettes burned Shirley Tower, near Bradford, an unoccupied mansion. The damage is estimated at £SOOO. October 28. . Some suffragettes set fire to the Streatham Hill Railway Station, but the flames were quickly extinguished. MR ASQUITH ATTACKED. LONDON, November 2. Four suffragettes held AH Asquith up at Bannockburn, one of them crouching before his motor car while the others threw pepper at him and attempted to strike him with dog whips. Some detectives who were following in a police car overpowered the women and took them to Stirling. MRS PANKHURSTS TOUR. LONDON, October 31. Mrs Pankhurst’s American tour is practically a frost. The newspaper Suffragette has been voluntarily withdrawn, its indiscriminate sale exciting indignation and disgust. ADVICE TO AMERICAN WOMEN. NEW YORK, November 2. In a lecture to women voters in Chicago Mrs Pankhurst warned them to avoid militancy, as there was no need for American women to use violence in order to obtain votes. She said she considered that the attack on Mr Asquith with dog whips was perfectly proper in view of his attitude. LONDON, November 2. Suffragettes are suspected of scoring with diamonds deep wavy lines on a dozen plate-glass windows in the shopping centres of Edinburgh.