Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-22
SUFFRAGETTEs
ASSAULT AsQu|7H
British Premier Surrounded by
Them and Struck by Hen
rietta Williams.
ALL TRIED TO GET AT HIM
Williams Woman Made Another At
tempt, breaking Glass Window
OF T'nxicnb.

London, Nov 22.-Prcmicr Asquith
was assaulted by suffragettes in the
house of commons today and was saved
from rough handling only by the
prompt arrival of Il strong body %
police. Since the re-opening Of parlia-
ment delegations of militant, suffras-
cites have picketed the approach to the
lower house so closely that the pre-
mler has been obliged to resort IT,
strange devices TO circumvcnt them. In
addition to this campaign. the women
members OF radical election committees
threatened revolt unless the govern
ment recognized their claims prior to
the coming election.
1t seems that the prcmicr's promise
made In the house Of commons today.
instead OF placating, only innamod the
women
At u meeting ut Caxton hall, Miss
Chrstahel Pankhurst characterized the
minister's statement as wholly unsat-
isfactory, and nothing more nor less )
than an insult to the cause
With n rush the women left the
hall and several hundred strong start
cd for Downing street They cnconnt-
cred Mr.. Asqulth on route and before
the premier realized the situation he
was surrounded BY irnte suffragettes.
1t was not long before he recognized
that he was in a hostile camp, for
without any preliminarics Miss Hen
riettn williams struck the government
leader, ut the same time circulating:
you tax women as heavily. as men,
| yet women are not represented i'll par
| lament"
Shrill police whistles brought of
| iccra from all nearby quarters and rs
the women struggled among them,
selves for the privilege of getting
| at him. tho premier was hustled into
Il taXicab.
As the car started off with bound
| Miss Williams made another attempt
to reach Its occupant and IN doing 50
| put her fist through the glass OF the
window. She was pulled away still
| crying:
''1'raitor and coward
About 100 women We're arrested.
The trouble did not end with tile es-
cape OF Mr.. Asquith. Robbed OF their
special prey, n big body of women
broke through the police barrier and
marched down Downing street. For n
considerable time pandemoniOm reign
ed In the vicinity OF the ministerial
residences.
Shrle,ing women. many of them
armed with bamboo poles that had
been used TO support the banners but
now served as lnnces. fought like
| AmuZons. desperately attacking the po-
lice and claWing and kicking to such
good purpose that the police line was
broken and the officers forced to re-
tire temporarily.
Police reinforcements were hurried
to the scene and throwing themselves
against the pioters checked tho adj
vance. Women and their male SYM
pathiaers were hurled to the ground.
in many instances the. officers literally
dragged the women out of the lighting
zone and thus saved them from being
trnnpled to death by the mob behind.
II was some time before the police
succeeded in clearing Downing street.
| A litter of millinery. bits of costumes,
hand bags. and torn banners gave cri-
,iencc OF the tierceness with which the
field had been contested.
ASQuI1'H YIELDS,
London. Nov. o2-Premier AsQuith
has yielded TO the opportunities of the
suffragettcs and in the house of COM
mons today announced that IL he was
still in power at the next session of
parliament the government would give
| facilities for the consideration OF
| woman's franchise bill 50 framed rs
| IN admit NJ free amendment.