THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13493, 12 June 1914, Page 5

THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS

NO HEROIC PROPOSALS

SUCCESS OF THE CAT AND MOUSE ACT.

(Received June 11, 11.40 p.m.)

London, June 11

It is expected that the militant suffragist problem will be discussed iv the House of Commons on Thursday on the Home Office vote.

It is understood that the Government does not contemplate heroic legislation, and will confine its present action to testing the responsibility of the subscribers of the women's funds for damage to property. ,

Otherwise the Government is satisfied with the harrying effect of the Cat and Mouse Act. Many of the offenders convicted have given pledges to abstain from militancy, and others have served their sentences. A minority, not exceeding twenty, succeeded in making the hunger strike successful.

Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested while the procession was disorganised through a brief congestion of traffic. There was a slight scuffle.

Dense crowds thronged the Strand to Whitehall. The police barred its progress through the Strand, and the procession was swallowed up in a crowd of unsympathetic spectators.

Wild scenes occurred, at the Women's Liberal Federation meeting at the Caxton Hall. Many suffragettes were ejected, the stewards being energetically assisted by the ladies.