IN THE WARS AGAIN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13092, 4 June 1913, Page 3

IN THE WARS AGAIN.

LONDON, May 28. ' The suffragettes had another stormy experience on Sunday, when they attempted to hold a meeting m Victoria Park, m the East End. Fully 2C,UO) people were present, and fifteen platforms were provided for the speechmaking. , Miss Sylvia Pankhiirst met with 1 a, hostile reception when she came forward to speak. She read a letter from Mrs I)rumraond, who signed, herself, 'Tours m revolution." . -. After it had indulged m. considerable interruption, the crowd seized one of the lorries reserved for the speakers, antl dragged it to the park gate 3. i. The mounted police then charged ttiie .vcrowd, and people tumbled over one another m their efforts to escape. The crowd made another rush towards the lorry, but 1 the police forced it back, and forming a cordon round the militants, enabled them to reach a place of safety. The .suffragettes Tiave prepared, for transmission to the King and Queen, a letter denouncing the attitude of Parliament towards the suffrage question/ particularly m connection *with the "CJat-and-Mouse" Act — the measure introduced by the Government , with the objeqt£ of releasing the hunger strikers . qr\ license. . This Act, the militants declare,, is a cruel piece of legislation, becausV it legalises the present system of $p}\ ./torture for minor offences. It is pointed out that a. three years' sentence may be -made to extend, through release and ill-health, over a period of 36 years. ■X similar letter is being addressed to, the press. . . • " . An attempt was made on Saturday to blow.* up Wheatley Park, the Doiicaster seat of Sir Vyiliiam Cooke, Bt., • which at present is unoccupied. An. unexploded bomb and a quantity of suffragette literature were found xuider a Btaii'case. ,;,.; ■'■'' Two suffragettes who were attempting 4o damage the golf links at St. Andrews, ■ Scotland;, were intercepted by the night guards near the seventeenth green. ;,Utu of the women contrived to make -her escape, and the other was released aftei having been searched. ... -/•,■ |. The suffragettes' campaign of violehoe, and destruction shows no sign of atfating On- Monday i the green of North Oxford Bowling "Club were extensively damaged by the application of a corrosive fluid, believed to he vitriol, and the grass was so- badly burned that play will not be possible for a long while. Reports as of shots being fired were heard at Elginhaugh Bridge, near Eskbank, Scotland, and a search revealed that a number of charges of compressed rowder. had been exploded. Both outrages are attributed to the. militant women. Mrs Pankhurst is m gaol again. Her recommittal to, pi^spji. , took place as a j result of her failure observe tTio conditions under which she was liberated pending ;liiec : - feUoS^Ttfrow affects of her hunger strike, '^imng the morning a motor car ' drew lj up at the. house I m Woking at which she had been staying, and; .the suffrigetttr., leader came out with the intention oft -proceeding to (London. She -.was -.-at .once arrested, and ; later m the day came, before the Bow j street Polioe Qoiirt changed with having i committed 'ft breach of the license under ' which she had been released from , prison. -,-.■■ • __ • 1 Detective Bannon, of Scotland Yard, gave evidence • that when Mrs ' Pankhurst emerged from the house h^ asked her where site w ; as going, : to which shr replied, "Th«it's my business." He- told her that she would not' be allowed to enter the. caf, and she then iwformer' ihim that she yras going to the Pavilion j to attend 'a meeting ot the suffragettes, i Mrs Pankhurst, from the dock, asked if sh« would be permitted to say. somej thing. The Bench consenting, the dej fendant complained that since she had ,:be«n released from . Hplloway Gaol sltve ; had been treated exactly as if she had 'been m 'prison. It was, she; declared, /absolutely impossible for one to recover one's health m such circumstances. - !. The /magistrate told the defendant ;• that he intended to send her back, to jorison'. T,

Mrs Pankhiirst: "I meant to come t6 London to end my intolerable situation jand to resume my position as an ordinary human being. If I am taken to ;Hollb>yiy". I"' •shall ' resume my prdtefef until I die, or until the Government recognises women aa' citizens." Th© Bench then, ordered the tlefen'dnnt to be removed to Holloway Qaoij \vhitihfcr she was accordingly taken .iriUi ta^ci-cab, accompanied by two detectives and : a nur&e. Two other taxis contaijiingsuflracettea followed. J , ' ; When the news'* of Mrs Pankhurst's 4'earrest Avas communicated to tho meeting at the Pavilion it was received wjtb loud cries of "Shame !" '