The servants' wing was wrecked.
The women by. mistake placed the bombs- in the "upper rewms, otherwise tho walls would have collapsed.
Twelve workmen arrived twenty minutes after, the explosion. If the candle had been an inch longer their lives would have been endangered.
Mr. Winston Churchill, Sir Rnfus Isaacs, Mr. Mclverina, and mentbers of. the< Wilton Gol£. Clubjluiti-heeft.'^atrol-iiig !the, lieatli day and night. . =
■ ■ '"■Mrs. P^Ttkliurst,' speakings at Cardiff, amid uproar, admitted that women blow up the Chancellor's house because they wanted to wake him up. While an army of men were guarding the golf links a successful piece of guerilla warfare was carried out. She accepted the responsibility.
"If I am arrested," she added, "I shall hunger strike. They cannot torture mo. very long; they must let mo die or go. If I drop out a hundred more will take my place."
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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13655, 21 February 1913, Page 5
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