The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
ELEVEN SCORE
WOMEN ARRESTED
Two Hundred and Twenty suffras.
cites, Not to Mention Three Men,
Were Locked up by
London Police.
FOSTER FOLLOWS
Scarcely Window in the Nelghbor-
hood Of Parliament Which Re-
mains Whole After Last
Nights Attak.

LONDON, Nov. 22.-The militant
section of the suffragettes have not
been long in making good their prom
ise to resume their old tactics.
They warned Premier Asquith Of
this last week, and last night between
s and IL o'clock, some 200 martyrs"
to the female cause were marched by
burly London boobies" to various po-
lice stations in the neighborhood of
the House of Commons. They made
a fine demonstration, but 1t suffered
by comparison with their earlier ef-
forts.
The program announced we'll be-
forehand, was for the women to as
semble at their headquarters in Cax-
ton Hall, march to Westminster,
beard their ministers in their den and
make demands from the floor of the
house.
They gathered in Caxton hall in
goodly numbers, though fewer than
on former occasions, and speeches
were made vigorously condemni " the
government manhood suffrage bill as
an insult to women. Resolutions were
adopted, demanding equal franchise
rights for both sexes.
Miss Christabel Pankhurst presided
at the meeting. The speeches de-
manded in sulphuric language the
abandonment of the manhood suffrage
bill and the introduction of bill pro.
yiding franchise rights for all.
At the conclusion of this meeting
| the women formed procession an2
started for the house of commons
headed by Mrs. p. Lawrence. The
police were out in strong numbers.
They took every precaution against
surprise raid on st. Stephens. They
tested the gates, locks and DOORS and
placed a Gordon completely around
Parliament Square.
AS soon as the procession started
large force of police broke it up. The
women composing it were obliged to
go in small groups to Parliament
\ Square. Here and at all the ap-
4 proaches to the parliament buildings
4 several thousand people gathered to
see the fun.
4 There was also an army OF police,
probably couple of thousand, who
effectively preserved the precincts of
parliament from the slightest desc
Grafton.
The women were soon struggling
with the police in an effort to break
through the Gordon and before 8:15
a O'Clock thirty-fiye arrests had been
4 made. The usual method of forcing
arrest was for two or three TO run up
(! against solid line of hobbies" who
would gently push them back into the
crowd.
/ If this course of action was persist
ed in often enough it would in time
! bring about an arrest. Three police
men would be brought out from the
reserves behind and they would take
the suffragette to the police station,
a mounted policeman making way
for them through the crowd. In this
manner altogether 223 suffragists, in
cluding three men, were taken to po'
lice stations.
There was q new feature of this
smashing. TITS was done by flying
equadrons of suffragette volunteers,
the object being apparently to draw
the attention of the police from the
House of Commons.
Three girls threw stones through a
large window of the dining room OF
the Minister Palace Hotel, the room
being full of diners There was
scaroely a building on the left side OF
Parliament Square which did not
have its windows smashed
The war office windows suffered ex
tensively, as did those of the Nation
, al Liberal Club. Another flying squad
ron smashed windows in the Strand
, Many used hammers and nearly al
, the smashing of glass in the treasury
/ building was done with these weapons
/, as well as in the shop windows on the
Strand
One member of the squad raided as
/ far east as Fleet street and used hel
+ hammer on the windows of the Daily
r Mail After two or three windows hat
been broken the editor sent polite
message to the raider asking her t
: spare the remainder of the windows
: and all would be forgiven
e The marauder scornfully rejected
the Offer and resumed her smashing
S continuing it until she was arrested
j More than $4,000 worth of glass wa
smashed altogether.