WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 59, 5 March 1912, Page 5

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.

THE CONSPIRACY" ACT.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association.

London, March 4

The newspapers, discussing the suffragette raid, suggest that. the conspiracy law enables the recovery of damages from the funds of the organisation directing the raid, equally with the chattels of individual raiders. A suffragette was arrested on Sunday night for dropping bn to the floor of the telegraphic department at the General Post, Romanbath Street, London, a basket of blazing shavings, saturated with parafin. It is understood that this was a prelude to an organised .series of outrages on post offices. THIRTY SUFFRAGETTES RAID DRAPERS’ SHOPS. MANY WINDOWS SMASHED. (Received 5, 8.25 a.m.) London, March 4. Thirty .suffragettes were arrested while raiding the shops of the principal drapers of the West End. Many windows were smashed. DISORDERLY IN GAOL. (Received 5, 8.30 a.m.) London, March 4. Mr G. Roberts, Labour Whip, denounced the suffragist demonstration in the West End as a combination of hysteria and hooliganism. The suffragettes smashed their coll windows at Holloway Gaol. They waved handkerchiefs and sang “The Marseillaise.” Six thousand constables are in readiness for to-night’s demonstration in Parliament Square.