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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10406, 20 July 1912, Page 5

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United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright London, July 19. Mr Asquith’s route, while journeying to Ireland accompanied by his family, was altered from Boston to Paddington Station owing to Suffragettes planning to attack him. He was accorded a great ovation in Dublin, where, in a torchlight procession, he rode beside Mr Redmond in a carriage. His wile scattered flowers among the crowd. A Suffragette was arrested for throwing a hatchet at Mr Asquith, It grazed Mr Redmond’s eat, drawing bleed. At the close of the performance at the Theatre Royal a young woman named Evans ponied some fluid which fired the curtain of a box. Youths ext3as u * o l fl ames > anc * Evans was arrested. Two English Suffragettes . handed a statement to the Irish Times that they had come to Ireland with a fuL sense of responsibility. They accepted Mr Hobhouse’s challenge by burning, not an English castle- but a Dublin theatre, While Mr McKenna waa laying the foundation stone of Oaerieon Training College, a Suffragette, who was standing behind him, seized and shook him violently.