THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 39, 8 June 1914, Page 6

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

SOME NOISY MEETINGS. Eltotrio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received IJSO p.m.) London, June 7. A suffragette speaker at Clapham Common aroused hostility by making veiled threats regarding the use of bombs. The meeting was broken up and several narrow escapes from lynching occurred. 1 • Similar scenes were enacted on Hampstead Heath and at Hyde Park. A suffragette was arrested for shouting during the evening sermon at Westminster Cathedral. A supposed burglar was arrested ih the servants’ quarters at Buckingham Palace. He visited several bedrooms, all occupied. He alleged that he only intended to prove how easy it was to enter the palace despite the police and military precautions. A “DO OR DIE” SPEECH. (Received 2.5 p.m.) London, June 7. ' Sylvia Pankhurst, in a speech in the East End, London, said that when she saw Mr Asquith next Wednesday she would ask the deputation not only to plead but to threaten him. She did not care about herself. She asked them to carry on the movement, because it might happen that she would not be alive on Wednesday. She was determined that the East End people should settle the question on Wednesday.