THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144145, 15 July 1913, Page 3

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

BATTLE WITH POLICE. RE-ARREST OF SUFFRAGETTES. MRS. PANKHURST ESCAPES. BX ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —copyright. (Received July 15, 12.40 p.m.) (t LONDON, July 14. Miss Kenny appeared on the platform at Hie Pavilion Music Hall and sold her prison licenses by auction for £l2 for tho benefit of tho political bi-bn's funds. Mrs. Pinkhurst also came on to the platform amid tumultuous cheering. Both were arrested when leaving, after a violent struggle with the police. Mrs. Pankhurst escaped in a taxicab, a crowd of women beating off tho detectives with parasols and sticks. A constable’s coat was torn off in tho melee. NON-MILITANT DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, July 14. During their Majesties’ visit to Liverpool a woman hurled a poker through a shop window and rushed to the suffragette office, where sho was arrested and identified as Mrs. Jolly, secretary of the local union. The first batch of a thousand nonmilitant suffragettes, marching to London iVorn every part of England, has arrived. A notable feature was tho sympathy and support of the clergy *nd mayors. Donations to the demonstration fund amount to £4079.