THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144084, 1 May 1913, Page 3

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

HEADQUARTERS RAIDED. ■ By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received May 1, 9.3 5 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. The police raided the Women’s Political Union headquarters in Kfngsway. Several women were arrested. A hundred police made the raid. They arrested Mrs. Drummond and Miss Annie Kennedy, who were charged with making inflammatory speeches, publishing the newspaper Suffragette, and collecting money for criminal objects. . They were remanded, and hail was refused. Anti-suffragists looted the. offices of the Women’s Political Union at Newcastle at night. They broke open the desks and destroyed documents. A CARDINAL’S OPINION. (Received May 1, 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 30. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, in a letter to the Anti-Suffrage Association, deprecated female suffrage. Pleading for the dignity of woman, he said that the powerful influence exercised, by a sensible matron over her sons and husband amounted to voting by proxy. Men rarely failed to follow the counsel derived from inspired, rather than laboured, reasoning. ACTION AGAINST A LAWYER. (Received May 1, ,13.40 p.m.) LONDON, April 30. The Government has filed a petition in bankruptcy against Mr. Pethick Lawrence, the suffragist, for law costs, which be refuses to pay, declining to be victimised.