The Suffragettes

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5341, 23 June 1913, Page 3

The Suffragettes

CABLEGRAMS.

United Press Association By Electric Telegraph—Copyright

More Fire Raising HEWITT’S CONDITION PRECARIOUS. London, June 20. An unoccupied mansion at Solihull. Warwickshire, was destroyed by lire today. A card was found in the adjoining grounds marked “Phillimore, judge not.” Received 5.5 p.m., 22nd. London, June 21. Hewitt’s condition is precarious. In 1911 Hewitt relinquished his patrimony in favour of a younger brother. He has always been regarded as eccentric and worked with the labourers on his father’s estate. Recieved 9.25 a.m., 23rd. London, June 22. Suffragettes burnt the Catty Marine Laboratory at St. Andrew’s Univeristy, causing £SOOO damages. ATTEMPT TO DESTROY A CANAL. Received 12.40 a.m., 23rd. London, June 22. A bomb, placed by suffragettes, blew a cavity in the embankment of the canal at Yardley Wood, Birmingham, almost penetrating to the canal. If the attempt had been successful the water from 11 miles of the canal would have been emptied into the valley. Crops would have been devastated, and loss of life would have been inevitable.

THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. MILITANTS NOT WANTED. Received 9.35 a.m., 23rd. Budapest, June 22. Mesdames Uespard, Cobden and Anderson were permitted to address the Suffragist Congress. They complained of the exclusion of their party, and commented upon the narrowness of the National Union. Mrs Fawcett replied that the Union was not responsible for their exclusion. The president declined to permit any discussion of national conflicts, the decision being cheered by nonmilitants, who resented the militants’ speeches as breaches of hospitality. HUNGER STRIKER RELEASED. SUFFRAGETTES MOBBED AND PELTED. THE DAMAGE AT THE GATTY LABORATORY. Received 10.20 a.m, 23rd. London, June 22.

Laura Lennok, who was sentenced, on the 17th, in connection with the suffragette conspiracy, has been released owing to hunger striking. The police are vainly searching for Lillian Lenton, who escaped, it is believed, disguised as a van boy, though several detectives had been watching her house day and night. Thirty cartridges, together with oiled rags and a burning taper were discovered in Saint John’s Church, Southend. They were extinguished without damage. The east wing of the Gutty Laboratory has been burnt down. A window pane was covered with soft soap and a dozen tins of petroleum were discovered in the building. Many valuable Scientific drawings were destroyed. Several thousand people at Camborne mobbed the suffragettes, who are marching from Lands’ End to London, and pelted them with eggs. The suffragettes took refuge in an hotel and escaped by the back door in disguise.

A large crowd at Blyth mobbed two suffragette speakers, whom the police rescued with difficulty.