THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 296, 7 May 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

THE CONSPIRACY .CASE. By Cable—Presa Association—Cqpyright.i London, May 5. : The suffragist conspiracy case was resumed to-day. Mr. M. Bodkin, K.C., counsel for the prosecution, described Mrs. Drummond as violent and unscrupulous, and said that Miss Kennew had made inflammatory speeches. Clayton, the analyst, had, he said, in return for! payment, prostituted his knowledge of' science to the furtherance of crime, producing what their newspapers misealled a reign of terror. Documents showed that a man named Buckner, of Hamburg, wrote to Miss Kerr, one of the defendants, telling how to terrorise audiences with powder causing violent sneezing and' severe irritation of the skin. THE SUFFRAGE BILL. London, May "5. Mr. W. H. Diekson, the Liberal member for St. Pancras North, moved the second reading of the Bill giving representation to women. He said it was a gross injustice to withhold the vote owing to the criminal acts ,of a few. The Bill should be passed, but 'be made inoperative until a referendum of women showed that they desired ithe wote. ANOTHER BOMB OUTRAGE. London, May 5. '• A bomb, containing sufficient nitroglycerine to wreck the building, was found in the General Post Office.

A DESPERATE CONSPIRACY.

THE SUFFRAGETTE DEBATE.

Received 6, 11.25 p.m. London, May G. ' Mr. Bodkin, counsel for the prosecution in the suffragette conspiracy case, 1 detailed a scheme submitted to Mrs.' Drummond, costing £2O, whereby the I dockyards could be fired, causing £20,000 ; damage. Nina Boyle and Annie Munroe, leaders, of the Women's Freedom League, have been arrested in connection with the meeting in Hyde Park. Drew has apologised and promised not to print further for the suffragettes. He was bound over in a surety of £ISOO. The rest of those arrested were remanded and bailed i out, except Mrs. Drummond and Miss Kennew, who shouted that they would hunger strike. The suffragette debate in the House ; of Commons was apathetic. Many 1 speakers emphasised that militancy had given the movement a strong set-back. Mr. Arnold Ward moved the rejection of the Bill. J

Fourteen suffragist Commoners have circularised their colleagues that while they support the second reading of Dickinson's Bill to vote against the third reading unless an amendment is carried to bring the mjeasure in line with the original Conciliation Bill.