The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-24
B|G DEMONSTRATION
 BY SUFFRAGETTES
Women Protest Against Action
 of the Government
SUFFRAGE IS DEMANDED
chise to Women Who Own Prop erty Is Cause of the Great
 Parade in Hyde Park

London July Special )-Half mil lion women marched in a body to Hyde park this afternoon in protest against the action of the government in shelving the Shackleton franchise bill granting the ballot to women with property qualified tions.
 This was the most spectacular incident in the English suffrage movement. Thou sands looked on and cheered wildly while the women waved flags and screamed and shouted for the cause" Many became hysterical in their excitement and had to be- hauled away in ambulances. Many American women took part. Miss Maude Roosevelt, second cousin of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, made fiery speech. Dr. An na Shaw, Miss Inez Milholland of New York, Miss Elizabeth Butcher and Miss Alice Davis of Columbia university were also in line Professor Martin of Leland Stanford university, spoke in Hyde park.
 Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont was advertised to speak, but she slipped away from Lon don and went to Paris on the plea that a relative was i'll. The police were unable to handle the crowd. A number of foot | tranpled to death before they could be rescued by mounted troops.
 At Hyde park the scene was one of in- tense excitement. Red-hot resolutions were immediately adopted to force the franchise bill through parliament with out delay.
 There were forty separate meetings In which the half million women partici- pated in Hyde park. There were l5O speeches and resolutions without limit were adopted.
 The parade as it filed into the park was led by e25 women who had served prison sentences for disturbing the peace and stoning public officials. These women were attired in prison garb and some of them carried red flags. The martyrs were followed by 300 women artists. wear ing paint stained aprons and carrying pal cites and brushes, showing that they earned their own living.
 One hundred actresses were in line, among them many well known in Amer lea who are here for the summer.
 band of Irish women plpers played in cessantiy and the weird strains of their instruments at times rose up and dead ened the tumult of shouts and screams and cheers.
 A squadron of Irish women attired in green dresses followed the pipers. There were drum corps and fife corps made m of women There was also regiment of suffragette cavalry who brought up the rear as sort of a rear guard.
 The % women from the United States carried the American banner. Delegates from the following countries carried their native flags and cheered in their native tongue
 France, Germany Holland, Sweden, Canada and Norway
 England has been used to lively scenes during the past few years due to polit- ical feeling, but never before in the fiis- tory of the campaign was scene as wild as was shown this afternoon by the 500, 900 suffragettes
 In addition to the women who were actually participating, hundreds of men, women and childrer spectators tagged along. At one of the Hyde park meet fnVs a long telegram from Mrs. Belmont was read She said she hoped that the English women would be successful in getting the ballot within the next four weeks.
 So tense was the excitement that 1t was feared by the police that damage might be done to public buildings. and all the police reserves in London were on ', ,,d to r,revapt disorder