EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN AMERICA.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14958, 4 January 1919, Page 5

EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN AMERICA.

SCENE AT THE CAPITOL,

RIOTOUS WOMEN.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Jan. 3, 7.45 -p.m.)

V/ashington, Jan. 1

A soldiers and sailors' attempt to quench a fire started by the Women's National Party in front of the White House as a protest against the Senate's refusal to pass the equal suffrage resolution, led to unseemly trouble. Women carrying banners -were knocked down and their banners destroyed. The fire was quenched. Five persons Avere ar-

rested

The women rallied and re-lighted the fire, and displayed a banner denouncing President Wilson as a false prophet of democracy.