Numerous Arrests.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 27, 23 May 1914, Page 5

Numerous Arrests.

womm F3GHT THE POUOE j - SERIOUS DISTURBANCES. [Bt Electric Telegraph—Cop i right .[United Prehb Association.] (-Deceived 8.20 a.m.) Lo ido-i, May 22. In connection with the raid t.n Buckingham Palace 10J women marched t Grosvenor Street ami hurled their ■ elves at the closed gates . An infuriated clergyman in has sinrtsleties had many chiles, but rim, police readily repelle 1 them.

1* ere were more smious disorders on Constitution .Hill. Women armed .van.' si ei rs tried u-

cut the bridle® of aba mounted pd'ce. Other'- with Indian c: ihs attic keel ibe constables or flung them-el ms at the police, but were thrown to the ground. While a policeman was temporarily blinded with paint a women stnicnt him with a chib and be was taken to the hospital unconscious. A number of bedraggled women ran the gauntlet of an unsympathetic crowd, but were arrested and carried to Wellington Arch, where they were locked in a room, but they smashed the windows and broke up the furniture.

The crowd recognised Miss Billington, and she was severely maltreated. The police found her crying bitterly and escorted her to safety. Sixty-seven arrests were made, including several during the disturbances at night at Whitehall, where the Government offices were strongly guarded.

The prisoners from Wellington Arch were taken to Scotland Yard, where many escaped to the roof and addressed the crowd on the embankment, but were recaptured. DESTRUCTION OF FAMOUS! PAINTINGS. WOMEN USE HAMMER AND CLEAVER. (Received 9.35 a.m.) London, May 22. A suffragette smashed five pictures at the National Art Gallery. Another smashed pictures at the Royal Academy. The woman entered the Venetian Room with a hammer concealed in her clothing, and smashed the pictures within reach, slightly damaging some of the Madonnas. ' The woman when arrested was cut with the broken glass. Simultaneously, another suffragette in the Academy with a cleaver smashed Clausen’s “Primavera,” which was damaged to the extent of £250. She was also arrested. RIOTOUS SCENES !N COURT. THROWING THINGS AT THE MAGISTRATE. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Loudon, May 22. The suffragettes arrested at the Palace behaved riotously at Bow Street. They hurled their shoos and papers at the Magistrate, and tried to climb over the dock railings. Packets of white powder were hurled indiscriminately by the crowd in the court, which was cleared. After exciting struggles, one woman was sentenced to ten days imprisonment, and others were bound over to keep the peace. A WINDOW-SMASHING CAMPAIGN. London, May 22. Mrs Drummond was released for hunger-striking. Despite her weakness, she refused to go to a nursing home, and went to Mr McKenna’s hopse, whore she sat on the doorstop, and the police re-arrested her. The police raided a house at Maida Vale, arrested five women, and seized important documents and many bags of flints and hammers. It is believed that a window-smash-ing campaign is proposed as a protest against Mrs Pankhurst’s arrest.