BETRAYED BY A SNEEZE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9690, 25 February 1910, Page 7

BETRAYED BY A SNEEZE.

FOB MS. London, January 7. With the exception of a few minor autarbanoes, hardly worth counting d ' gaeh, there is silence in the qnSragettes camp jnat now. It is, dnnbt, the peace that heralds a Btorw since it; is not at all likel: J K the suffragettes will let so great on opportunity —and one for which aH long been lookmg-as « aeueral election go peacefully by. That they are still determined to w o pn themselves in evidence was shown this week, when two Suffraattes were discovered in the after«nnn wedged between the pipes of fhe organ in Brighton Dome, where Sr Asquith spoke in the evening. Sey had actually been hidden there dnrotho previous day, and although u midnight, a search had been made the police, the women managed ?n escape detection. Strange to say, omir whereabouts were “given " ‘ " by one of the two sneezing! Fveu then the organ bnilder had to he brought before they were located. STRANGE HIDING-PLACE, Another woman was found also hiding iu a space between the rafters «nd the top of the organ. When it io remembered that this must necessarily be a great height from the Ground, and that a fall might have horrible results, it is not necessary + 0 dwell on the coolness and intrepidity of the Suffragette. 1)1 While Mr Lloyd George was .Making at Reading last week the andieuca was considerably startled bv the appearance of two women, rovered with dust, at the reporters’ table They had been hiding under the platform, and had managed to reach the hall in the first instance by a clever rose of apprcaohing the town by barge, so as not to attract attention. The fact that the two women, on crying out: “What are yon going to do for us?’’ were brutally struck by a man with his clenched fist, not once but many times, speaks too eloquently to need remark. It is fashionable to say that the Suffragette movement is itself killing chivalry. The question must arise as to whether ti can kill what obviously did not exist. No amount of argument can ever prove that it is good cricket to attack one already down, and the Idea of a man in a huge gathering of men ruthlessly striding a woman whose only crime is that she is upholding what she believes in ia altogteher sickening. Mr John Burns has been an object of attention already, A well-dressed woman, who on Thursday asked Mr Marshall, _ the clerk in charge at the committee rooms, for some clerical work, returned on Saturday morning, and walking rapidly across the room began syringing a brownish liquid over various electioneering papers lying on a table. When Mr Marshall rushed across the room she darted into an inner room, and set to work upon a case of canvassing cards. Mr Marshall canght her by the arm, and a struggle ensued. The woman proved too strong, and after she had liberally sprayed Mr Marshall with the fluid she rushed into the street, mounted a bicycle and rode off.