SUFFRAGETTE OUTRAGES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 23 June 1913, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE OUTRAGES.

ANOTHER DASTARDLY PLOT. Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright LONDON, June 22. Suffragettes, using explosives, almost penetrated the canal embankment at Yardley Wood, Birmingham'. If the attempt had been successful, eleven miles of water would have been emptied into the valley, devastating crops, and loss of life would have been inevitable. A LABORATORY BURNT. Received June 23, 9.25 a.m. . LONDON, Juno 22. Suffragettes burnt the Gatty Marine Laboratory at St. Andrew’s University. Tbe damage amounts to £SOOO. HUNGER STRIKER RELEASED. Received June 23, 10.20 a.m. LONDON. June 22.

Laura Lennox, sentenced on the 17th inst. in connection with the suffragette conspiracy, has been released owing to hunger-striking. LILLIAN LENTON ESCAPES. LONDON. Juno 22. The police are vainly searching for Lillian Lenten, who escaped, it is believed, disguised as a vauboy, though several detectives have been . watching the house day and night. EFFORT TO BURN ST. JOHN’S CHURCH. LONDON. Juno 22. Thirty cartridges, together with oiled rags and burning paper, wore discovered in St. John’s Church, Southend, but the fire was extinguished without damage.

THE CATTY LABORATORY FIRE.

VALUABLE DRAWINGS DESTROYED

LONDON. June 22. The east wing of Gatty Laboratory was 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. SUFFRAGETTES MOBBED. LONDON. June 22. Several thousand people at Camborne mobbed the suffragettes who are inarch:ng from Land’s 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. The police rescued them with difficulty.

THE SUFFRAGETTE CONGRESS

SPEECHES BY MILITANTS RESENTED. Received June 23, 9.35 a.m. BUDAPEST, June 22. Mesdamos Despard, Cobdons, and Anderson were pernii'ted to address the Suffrage Congress, They complained of the exclusion of their party, and commented upon the narrowness of the National Union. Mrs Fawcett replied that tho Union was not responsible for the exclusion. Tl’.e president declined to permit the discussion of national conflicts, and the decision was cheered by the non-mili-tants, who resented the militants 1 speeches as breaches of hospitality.