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AimWith. Mrs. Emm&lib® P&mkkw§ft~-Tk® "Caft amid Moms® Law" for S^lFffiragcftft®# nun L®midloini w -w ^ -v .- The that effect. About 1005 militant tactics were and horsewhipped them. They have pectins to discover all sorts of weapons double, who came out of the door dressed .'mice.'* government, finding with the of in Mrs. Pankhurst's familiar clothes, forcible could not dampen the The Star publishes an InterTlcwr Mrs. adopted. It is impossible to estimate the thrown petitions of all sorts Into destruction and plans, but they feeding tha Kmniallrt* Pankhnrst. the leader of the London but it be safe to carriage, and in every way possi¬ found practically nothing, as this head¬ which are very distinctive. ardor of these women, decided that It nan secured a damage done, would king's her do would be to al¬ militant snffrHgrttes. hy ape- that the cost would be close on to ble they have tried arouse quarters Is devoted solely to what they The meeting that followed arrest beat thln| they could < In fx»«0<in before her say to/horoughly in lal rtirr»s]H>ndent shortly were to "heir question. term "constitutional" work. From here was dramatic. Miss Anne Kenney, an¬ low them to remain m-tthout food rearrest under the of the "cat and ten millions of dollars. At first they the English people prwrlsiona wakness devoted most of Considering themselves above the law, thousands of pieces of mall are sent other hunger striker, talked for at least prison until the prison doctor declared iiiou*.' law." tMvtnc to ejtreme brought comparatively mild, and it in she was hardly that could stand It no longer, when <>n th!r»t ami hunger strikes In¬ to to they have succeeded in breaking out every day. and through these doors fifteen minutes, although they by her rrp^at'Ml their energies interrupting meetings baffled the At the end of her would be released and a cer¬ terviews with tier ar*- illtT.'iilt. almost lruno»sih> ask questions of prominent politicians. manner that has absolutely it is estimated over 2,MO women, ac¬ able to stand. speech they given tc aecare. Th«» article which follows depict a the police. Scotland Yard has devoted a tively engaged in the campaign, pass she dramatically offered for saJe her tain number of days to recover.after an eyewitness of the dally * the suffra¬ in which wss bought for the which they would be rearrested. Mrs. S npre^slon made iijioii * * whole section of its force to an afternoon. prison license, .irvelopmcnt» in tlie progress of the campaign gettes. but in a short time the womc The women themselves make an in¬ equivalent of by a woman who de¬ Pankhurat applied the term of "cat and f'>r woman suffrage In IxndOD. Then they turned to demonstrations of have found out who they are, and at teresting study. It is commonly sup¬ clared that she intends to present It to mouse act" to this hill. The simile Is a more violent have conduct¬ have made It very in that them are Woodrow Wilson. A largo sum peculiarly appropriate from the suf¬ I arrived In sort. They every opportunity they posed America all of President MUX ed numerous raids unpleasant for the numerous detectives coarse, hard featured, amazonlan types, of money was raised to carry on the fragette standpoint, as the government I window-smashing women under the act lx>ndon expected throughout the country. They have set that ure constantly following tbem. but there are very few that come up to fight that afternoon. treats the serving to tind a city filled Woman detectives by the score who the popular conception of a suffragette. Mies Kenney told In a pitiful but in very much the same way that the cat anxiety and fire to castles, churches, empty mansions, have applied for admission into the There are many very masculine and courageous way of her experiences during treats her prey. There are, at present with school- seven "mica" who are serving as befitted theaters, libraries, art galleries, Women's Social and Political Union In uneducated women engaged in the the four days she was in Holloway JalL writing, unrest, on inside of the move¬ I was told, are looked abstained from food. thalr sentences alternatively tn and out the of Eu¬ houses, railroad stations, grandstands, order to get the work, but. they Not only had she capital and railroad trains. ment have been detected by the close down upon the majority, who are Jail. In this number are Included Mrs. where ques¬ pleasure pavilions on all by of and her rope in the Bank ol watch which the members keep educated, cultured women, many Jf'ankhurst daughter Sylvia. tions of such vital They have placed bombs newcomers. The society itself Is un¬ them mothers, a few of them grand¬ a moment are at England and St. Paul's Cathedral, while doubtedly the closest political organi¬ mothers and all coming for the most a . but the they have attempted to enter almost zation ever known, and nobody seems part from very good families. stake": to do where It holds its meet¬ the work Is At the present time the Pankhurst of the ex¬ every public building in England to know just However, militant gen¬ depth some sort of damage. They have blown ings and conducts Its business. erally done by young women without family is widely scattered. Sylvia Pank¬ citement and con¬ up bridges and numbers of building*. The official headquarters of the Wom¬ any family c«nn«otl#n. They live at the hurst does not live with her mother, but fusion was even They have poured acids and other liquids en's Social and Political Union is In the Lincoln's Inn House or in various parts has room* In the Bast Side of London In I h-id The into the mail boxes and set fire to the Lincoln Inn House on Kingsway. It is of the city, and ?hile there seems to Is greater than anticipated. one of the be the Bow district, where she carefully seethed and frothed with letters Inside. They have cut telephone a handsome office building, no distinction made between them of whole city fairly and telegraph wires and have tampered finest in London, and from its top there and the other women they can general¬ guarded by a number strong sym¬ of a movement which we of the col¬ the strength the with telegraph and railroad signals. waves a large flag society's ly be seen standing around the en¬ pathisers. > mej icatis can hardly understand. By have sent out false fire alarms by ors. green, whife and purple, while trances of the places of meetings. In Pankhurst, who is perhapa T set They Christobel merest chance, the very moment the hundreds, and they have kept the fire "Votes for Women" In large gilt letters case of need all the women become moat one of them is now itself across the the radical all, in Ixmdon I landed in the midst companies on the jump in every large stretches building militant. where she fled directly f->ot city In have acids crowned with the society's Initials in I have seen several pitches battles be¬ living In Paris, of it. England. They poured P. she conducted the window-smashing and con¬ on the greens of many golf links, thereby gold letters, "W. S. U." tween the suffragettes and the London after Later. after the wild uproar PANKHURST, 31st of of this year the po¬ was a the dis¬ as¬ MRS. EXNALINE PASKHIRST AND MISS CHRISTOBEl, rendering them useless. They have The April police. The flrst rattle after meet¬ campaign In fashionable shopping fusion had somewhat subsided, I was thrown hatchets at prominent officials lice made a raid on this building, ex- ing in Memorial Hall, where the police re¬ trict of London. Here she directs the sured by a seemingly indlfTerent spectator arrested Miss Rachel Barrett, one of the whole and conducts the editor¬ me a second At a from her nurse I withdrew. who had campaign ihat what had seemed to do not wish her to be tired by too long sign hunger strikers, addressed the work of the official paper the Suf¬ a of a My interview had lasted only a few min¬ meeting. Men and women of all classes ial Wench revolution was "only piece an interview." she had uttered We took a taxi from the suffragette utes. but in that time joined in the tight, and for a while it fragette. riot." in the Lincoln's Inn House a significant statement. looked as though the police were getting The Suffragette is a weekly newspaper "If really want to see something headquarters the worse you to¬ on Kingsway to her flat on Little Smith * of the affair. Helmets flew in devoted entirely to the cause. Its circu¬ worth seeing go to Trafalgar Square street in Westminster near the abbey. * * all directions, while the screams of the lation is close on to 50.000 copies a week morrow." he said. When we reached there a number of de¬ Mrs. Pankhursts personality alone has angry women must have been heard for and It is sold by the women all over the for his warn¬ were the door, squares. in London and I thanked him gratefully tectives standing about held many thousands of women to a country. On every street and started off in the opposite di¬ but we went In without interference, and ? almost every corner a woman Is stationed ing to her room.

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