THE SUFFRAGETTE CAMPAIGN

Southland Times, Issue 17348, 20 May 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTE CAMPAIGN

MISS PANKHURST LV FRANCE. MR J. DILLOX AS A WITNESS. -MIEITAXCY AXD RKBELTJO.X. Illy Telegraph. V*ri’«- A-eoeintinn.— Copy right I. I.DXDOX, May IS. It is reported liiat (he Foreign Office has drawn the attention of the French authorities lo the fact that Miss Cliristabel Pankhurst i- tihusing their hospilality by conducting a criminal campaign. Mr Joint Dillon, testifying against a window smasher in Dublin, said that he heard his window smashed, but he did not trouble to ascertain the cause. Prisoner asked Mr Dillon whether he signed a petition giving .Sir L. S. Jameson (leader of the Jameson raid) full political rigtits. Mr Dillon r e P lipcl in the affirmative. Being asked whether he approved of Jameson's act, Mr Dillon replied that rebellious militancy was disgraceful, hut he did not consider rebellion disgraceful. LEAGUE OF JUSTICE. BOYCOTT PROPOSED. LONDON. 'May 19. Received 2oth. 12.15 a.m. A League of Justice Woman's Suffrage Organisation lias been started. It is pledged not lo give monetary or personal aid lo any institution, and to boycott professional men and tradesmen who are not supporting women’s suffrage. A WOMAN’S PARLIAMENT. A DAILY MAIL SUGGESTION. LONDON, May 11. Tlie Daily Mail, In the course of a leading article.-suggests that the suffragettes might secure all that they are striving for by organising a woman’s Parliament or a senate elected on representative lines by the women of the whole country. Although lacking executive authority, such a body, the Mail points out, could draft measures and acquire so much influence that its recommendations could not be lightly disregarded by the Legislature. FRENCH POINT OF ’ VIEW THEY WANT LOVE. LONDON. May 12. The Parisian Press condemns the conduct of the suffragettes, and offers the explanation of their behaviour to the fact that the majority of them are unmarried. “If the element of love entered into their lives,’’ says one newspaper, “their present action would be impossible.” Another paper offers up the prayer, “We are thankful that these viragoes are British and not French.” French caricaturists picture suffragettes in dreadful drawings of rough, red-faced creatures, with enormous feet, touzled hair, and appalling garments rushing to the fray. Ugly hats in Paris are being called “chapeaux suffragettes.”