FEMALE FRANCHISE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13636, 2 July 1908, Page 5

FEMALE FRANCHISE.

CAXTON HALL CONVENTION. ' ' ASSAULT' ON THE COMMONS.

A- SERIES ,GF S,CUFFLES. Preai Association-By Telepninh-rnpyright Received July Ist, LONDON, July Y. The Women's Social Political Union Convention at Caxton Hall 'deputed Mrs' Pankhurst and twelve ojthers, ,to carry a resqlution to the House 6f-' Commons. The police escorted" the to the entrance of the -House where /the inspector statad that the 'Sergeant at Arms forbade the deputatiotf tol-enter as Mr Asquith, the Prime 'Minister, declined to receive" them, and suggested that the women present a .'"" "", } < , This "reported Jo.tb? C/ixton.' Hall' forthwitliu prepared; to 'invade th'eijjHbuse of "% " \ - A! huge and,, uproarious that hail gafjiered "in Parliament 'Square, ~'for, tyiro hours watchecl ,the progress of the,,assault upon the House. The demonstrators * appeared in detached parties and the .police promptly excluded them from the squars. Twenty-eight were arrested, after a series o' scuffles.

Another deputation in a boat addressed tbe occupants ,of Parliament House Later two women in a taxicab armed with bags of stones were arrested for smashing the windows of Mr Asqnith's house in Downing street. ' ~- The proceedings at the convention were excited. t

Replying to Lady Groves' v expostulatory remark that it was notoriously illegal to walk in procession to the House of Commons, '. •- - , Mis 3 Pankhurst exclaimed : " Yes; John Burns' discovered that one sometimes must be a lawbreaker before being a lawmaker. We have only one black sheep i of ithe flock. We women are going to, win; 'let'it be fore some ..tragedy, Befdre some injury to one of these women, has: blotted . the page."