The Cairo bulletin., 1911-12-17
AMERICANS SAW
SUFFRAGE RIOT
Apparently Enjoys Class
Between Police And Militant
Suifrag's.s

London, Dec. l6,--Among the SUI
ferers from the effects of the mos
recent outbursts of the militant sui
fragists were a number Of America.
firms. The rock-throwing womei
smashed the large plate windows o.
an American drug store and boo
shop on the Strand and hurled ;
stone through the front OF tailorin'
establishment on the same street.
This latest display of miltancy
has been criticised by the Englisl
press and suffrage organizations
which do not approve of the method
used by the Women's Social and Pc
litical Union A number of the Or
| carnations which are forwarding
the movement have announced that
| they accept the Premier's state
ment as sincere, and that they will
make the battle for votes on the lines
suggested by him.
All effort on the part of the wo-
men under arrest to make political
capital of their appearance in cour:
was frowned upon by the presiding
Justice, who announced that all OF
the defendants would betreated as
ordinary misdemeanants. Seeing
that their martyrdom was falling
fat, number of the women elected
to pay their small fines rather thar
20 to Jail. while those who preferred
cells received little publicity out of
their choice, as the London papers
merely chronicled the sentences
without stating the choice made.
The British public, although not
disposed to violence, has had some
experience Of mob outbreaks, TO-
mented by sensational speeches. but
1t confesses itself puzzled by disorder
and property destruction. deliberate
10 planned in advance of an adver-
tised demonstration of protest, and
this phase of the latest militant af-
idii 10 bCih6 SiiSAtioCu
Many Americans attended the
demonstration and most of them
seemed to enjoy the occasion hugely.
Suffragettes and policemen We'd with
each other in extending courtesies,
and this disposition made the
charges of obstruction placed
against some of the women rathec
ludicrous. and, had 1t not been for
the window smashing, the number
of arrests would have been small.
Much to the amusement of the by
ISLANDERS, Mrs Pethwick Lawrence,
leader of the militants, flung herself
against the uniformed barrier time
after time, and 1t was only after she
had SLAPPED the face of one of the
n.inions of the law that her arrest
was ordered by police inspector.
One determined Amazon, unable
t. persuade the police that she was
of riotous disposition in any other
manner, sat down in the middle of n
crowded sidewalk, and, her bulk
preventing efsy removal, she was ar.
rested on a charge OF obstructing
traffic.
The divinity which hedges
about the British throne has been
broken and the play censor has been
e' AIDED by the private production Of
pains and Penalties" a plav
founded on the trial for infidelity OF
Queen Caroline, the consort of the
rather unlovely and bibulous George
II
The censor objected to the play
because it deals with an unfortu-
rate incident in the life of a recent
ancestor of George V. The author
of the play, Granville Barker, took
advantage of the private production
to make stage speech, in which he
proposed resolution denouncing
the appointment Of Charles Brook.
field as assistant censor as an act of
political indecency."
According to Barker, the appoint
ment of Brookfieid was double in
silt, for, besides being the author OF
two naughty" farces himself, tie
new assistant censor wrote an artie-
Gle for recent current review in
which he stated that the modern
British drama is worthless. The
resolution was adopted with only
two dssentiehts.
The banning of "Pains and Penal
ties" according to the critics, has
only served to advertise rather dali
play, the production of which was
sponsored by society which has
been organized after ninety years
to clear the name of Queen Caroline,
a subject to which the public is now
profoundly Indifferent.
All of which has served to revive
opposition to that strange British
| functlonary. the dramatic censor
Little had been heard of this officer
until recently, when he showed his
activity by compelling the manager
Of Kismet 10 put more drapery on
the bathing girl in that production