THE SUFFRAGETTES

Southland Times, Issue 17620, 7 April 1914, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES

PROPAGANDA THAT ••FAILED.

ROUGH HANDLING BY FACTORY GIRLS.

(Times and Sydney Sun Service.)

LONDON, April 5. Received April 6. 5.00 p.m. Militant suffragettes, who sought to distribute suffragist literature among flux mill girls at Blackpool, were roughly handled. The girls assaulted them with their lists, tore their hats and pulled their hair down.

EXPLOSION IN A CHURCH.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.

LONDON, April 6

Half an hour after evensong at St. Martin's in the Field the police heard an explosion. They foupd in the southern aisle pieces of a bomb and the remnants of a rubber bag. Two stained glass windows and a pew were shattered. Suffragettes are suspected.

LATER DETAILS,

BUILDING FILLED WITH SMOKE.

LONDON. April « Received April G, 10.35 p.m.

St. Ma-rtin’s Church was filled with dense smoke and tho fire brigade was summoned. A pew below the pulpit was blown up. The bomb exactly resembled that used at the St. .John’s Church outrage during a service. The occupants of the pew were a prominent church member and an unknown woman aged about 35 years.

A CANDLE AND A CANNISTEK,

CONFLICTING REPORTS.

LONDON, April G Received April G. 10.55 p.m.

A candle was inserted in the lid of the oannistcr under the seat at St. Martin’s. apparently taking eighty minutes before contact with the gunpowder. Some accounts state that the cannlster was wrapped in suffragette literature and contained clockwork.