The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-23
BOLD ATTACK MADE
 BY SUFFRAGETTES
Women Fight Wildly at Resi-
 dence of MT. Asquith ?
THE POLICE FIGHT HARD
Premier Is Hit In the Face By One Woman and Another Statesman Is Knocked About and Also
 Freely Kicked

| London, November 22-The politica ampaign is waging with fierceness al
 most unknown in England Politicians on the stump and suffragettes on the
 battlefield are extremely active.
 The battle of Downing street tough
 this afternoon when hundreds of sui
 fragettes attempted to storm the pre-
 mier's residence, MT Asquith and Angus tine Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland
 and broke many windows in the govern
 ment offices surpassed all previous spec tacles of the sort. About 150 women ano several men supporters are in the police station tonight.
 Following the announcement by the prime minister in the house of commons that if he were still in power at the next session of parliament the government
 would give facilities for the considers ton of suffrage bill, large body o1
 women, inhamed rather than placated by this promise, which was characterized
 as nothing more or less than an insult
 to the cause,' left Claxton hall in searct of the premier
 They came upon him on the way tc Downing street and immediately formed
 hostile cordon around MT. Asquith
 who recently has resorted to all kinds of subterfuges to keep himself clear ol the hands of the militant women. | Henrietta Williams struck the govern | ment leader and the premier would have | fared badly had not a detachment oi
 police run to his rescue. The police hao great difficulty in putting down the dis
 orders and many of the women had tc be dragged from the scene, with clothes half torn from their backs.
 The rioting continued into the evening
 when squads of women attacked the res.
 idence of Sir Edward Grey, foreign sec.
 retary; Winston Spencer Churchill, home
 secretary, and Lewis Harcourt, secretary
 of state for the colonies.
 Stones crashed through the windows o
 the houses, Sir Edward Greys home bear
 ing the brunt of the attack.
 One band spied MT. Birrell strollnf l through St. James park to the Athenaeun l club and swooped upon the aged states
 man, knocking his hat over his eyes ane
 kicking him about the legs. When hell came and the women were driven off MT. Birrell limped to his motor car or the arms of policemen.
 1 Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader
 of the suffragettes, was among those taken to Jall. Tier SlSter, Mrs. Grant denied admittance, threw missile | through the jail window. She then was incarcerated Miss Grf ce Johnson was the only American arrested Miss Annie
 Martin of Nevada, who was taken to the
 police station on Friday and later re- leased, was not among those arrested to- Might.
 Mir. Churchill tonight addressed big
 meeting, from which several man adher- ents of the women'S cause were dragged by the police. Mir. Churchill strongly defended the property of Irish-Ameri-
 cans contributing to the home rule cause The cry of American dollars was like ly to be used as a retort by the liberals he said, since Waldorf Astor had an
 ncunced that he was again the candi-
 date of the conservatives for Plymouth Battersea promises to be an interesting
 campaign ground, Sir John Harrington who married the daughter of Senator McMilan, having thrown down the gauntlet as the conservative candidate
 to John Burns, president of the local
 government board.
 The principal move of the day was
 Premier Asquith's attempt to placate the lahortes by promising to introduce legis- lation solving the difficulty which has arisen on account of the Osborn judg- ment. The labor party met tonight and declared that the scheme suggested by the premier was wholly unsatisfactory. The United Irish league has issued a
 manifesto against the lords, calling land lordism and the house of lords synony- nous