SUFFRAGETTE OUTBREAKS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12705, 7 March 1912, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE OUTBREAKS.

CHARGES OF CONSPH*ACY

(Press Asan.— By Telegraph.— Copyright)

LONDON, March 6. . Mr Pethick Lawrence, his wife, and Christabel Pankhurst. have been arrested on a charge of conspiring to incite to damage property. The police have removed, documents from the Women's Social Political Union offices.

Owing to the recent suffragette outbreaks the State apartments m Hampton Court, Kensington Palace, and Windsor Castle have been closed.

Seventeen suffragettes were sentenced to imprisonment with hard labor. The vVomen's Freedom League has issued a manifesto signed by Miss Despard and others, announcing a truce while awaiting the fulfilment of the Premier's pledges. (Received March -7, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 6.

Christobel Pankhurst has not been arrested. The police are searching for her.

(Received March 7, 11.35 a.m.) Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Tuke, who were imprisoned for participating m the recent Avirtdow-smashing demonstration, were charged with Mr Lawrence and. Mrs Lawrence for alleged conspiracy. During the hearing at Bow Street, Mrs Tuke became ill, and almost had to be carried out of court. Mrs Pankhurst was hysterical. All were remanded, Mr and Mrs Lawrence being refused bail. The police chase of Miss Christabel Pankhurst continues.

A weekly journal' entitled "Votes for Women" is edited by Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence. In an editorial paragraph they state : — "To the brave women who to-day are fighting for freedom: to the noble women who all down tbe ages kept the flag flying and looked forward to this day without seeing- it : to all women all over thei world, of whatever race, or creed, or calling, whether they be with us or against us m this fight, we dedicate this paper." '" In an article entitled "The Cabinet Crisis," Miss Chrlstabel Pankhurst writes: "The plan of facing both ways on Woman 'Suffrage, ..by- which the Cabinet hoped to lull Suffragists to a sense of false security, and at tlie 'same time to procure the shipwreck '<*»f?'the Woman. Suffrage cause, has. brought the Cabinet itself to the verge of disaster." Ministers had hoped that the Oppos^^n repress, and the public at large Wo*_ld\''*^nK.' v a.t the defiance of constitutibna^ r pi'ec^dent and principle involved by .their \adybcacy of conflicting policies '..°w_^ , -^ega°^d.^''tliis great national question/ 0 THe- Women's Social and Political Uni'l^''w_rae.d them that this could not befttb ;; t'H-a|i constitutional scandal woqldi,b4;rc*ra*iti|d by the public parade of Cabinet : differences, and that it would pro^e utofij^Edble m practice for one half of < tihe Cabinet to advocate a policy contrary Sto that advocated'by the other half/, k :, -„;,,