THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144085, 2 May 1913, Page 3

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

THE KINGSWAY RAID. STATEMENT BY HOME SECRETARY, By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, May 1. Fifty detectives and twenty-one constables made a carefully planned raid and thorough search of the Kingsway Suffragette quarters. Besides manuscripts, several columns of type awaiting publication were seized. Mr. M'Kenna, Home Secretary, speaking in tho House of Commons, amid'cheers, informed Mr. Keir Hardie that they had raided the union because they were charged with conspiracy and inciting to commit criminal offences. Prosecuting, he explained, was a necessity for suppressing danger to citizens and traders. An enormous number of crimes had been committed under the union’s auspices, involving damage to property, risk of life and limb, and vast inconvenience to the public. For months past almost daily these occurrences bad* been repeated. Admonitions heretofore had been unavailing. He now gave a plain warning that proceedings would be immediately taken against any person encouraging suffragettism by speeches, publishing or printing the union’s literature, or subscribing to its funds. Ho adder! that the newspaper Suffragette must be suppressed. PARIS, May 1. Miss Christabel Pankburst, in an interview, states that the raid would not make an atom of difference. “Wo anticipated the raid,'” she said, “and have made our plans to redouble our efforts.”