MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 74, 18 July 1914, Page 5

MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES.

THE HOME SECRETARY'S ESCAPE (By Elkotbio Telegraph—Copyright Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, July 17. In the House of Commons Mr McKenna (Home Secretary), being interrogated, declined to interfere with the Magistrate's decision in bailing out suffragettes pending their trial. He saw no objection provided they gave an undertaking that they would not commit other offences in the meantime. Mr McKenna admitted his houso had been besieged in the morning and that he had escaped in a taxi unobserved. '

RELEASED NINE TIMES. [United Press Association.] London, July 17. Mrs Pankhurst, in fifteen months, has served forty days of her three years' sentence. She was released nine times. ANOTHER PICTURE-SLASHER. SUFFRAGETTES BESIEGED. . (Reecived 9.20 a.m.) London, July 17. Anne Hunt, with a butchers' cleaver concealed in her dress, viciously slashed Fane Millard's portrait of Carlyle several times and damaged the face seriously. An attendant had great difficulty in preventing the woman doing further damage. A mob armed with sticks and stones stormed the suffragette meeting in Holland Park Rink and smashed the windows. The suffragettes' men friends barricaded the doors and used dozens of poles in bayonet fashion against the mob. The siege was sustained until the police relieved the defenders.