THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 12 May 1914, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

WAYS OF THE MILITANT. ( By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, May 10. After the morning service at Rev. Spurgeon’s Tabernacle at Newington Butts, a bomb exploded, damaging the pews. A suffragette’s postcard was found bearing the words: “Put your religion into practice. See that women obtain their freedom.” THE DEMAND IN AMERICA. [United Press Association. 1 New York, May 9. With banners flying, bands playing, and thousands singing, suffragists from every quarter of the United States made a demonstration, every American State being represented. A chorus of thousands of women, robed in white, sang “The March of the Women,” composed by Dr. Ethel Soyth, of England.

A great meeting was held in a theatre, and demanded the passage of the Women’s Suffrage measure now before Congress. Features of the procession were mounted women, carrying colors, and a large contingent of women representing pro-suffrage States. HUNGER AND THIRST-STRIKING. (Received 9 a.m.) London, May 11. Mary Wood, an Academy suffragette, has been released after hunger and thirst-striking.