El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-21
MAY DECLARE
SUGFRAGETS
OUTLAWS
England Seeks Plan For
Furnishing Women Smash
ers of Windows.
SECRETS OF ENGLISH
NAVY ARE SCATTERED

London. England, Dec. 21.-'Make
them outlaws" This is the severe sug.
gestion of a London lawyer to the au-
thorities who are at their wits ends IN
dealing with the militant suffragetcs,
As the women will not obey man
made laws" argues the barrister, they
have no right to the protection Of
those laws
While this newest proposition is not
likely to receive general approval. it
is admitted that some way must be
found to punish women violators OF
the law without making them mar
tyrs TO the cause When they were
arrested wholesale and committed to
prison for breaking windows, attempt
ing 10 set fire 10 a Dublin theater and
for other OffenSes they escaped by
means of the hunger strike. None has
been caught at setting fires and pour
ing ink and other substances into let
ter boxes, but Elsie Howey, who has
been sentenced TO two months i'm
priSOnment for turning in false fire
alarms. the latest device Of the mill
taDts to influence men to give them
the vote, probably will become a hun
ger striker
Many plans. including that Of letting
them starve in prison if they refuse
food. have been recommended to the
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with acceptance. The lawyer quoted
claims to have legal authority for his
sugSestion that the law breakers be
declared outlaws, with all that out
lawry signifies-ignored by the law,
deprived of police perfection and the
rest If this appears to radical, he
would have them declared undesir-
able, which would place it within the
power Of any magistrate to order their
removal beyond the shores Of the
United Kingdom.
Naval Secrets Leak Out.
The British naval authorities have
been considerably perturbed of late
over the way in which minor secrets
of British ships have been reaching
foreign powers, and particularly Ger
many, the spies from which country,
1t is asserted, are always prepared with
the biggest prices for anything per
tanning to naval matters.
There have been several prosecutions
of civilians charged with cOmmunieat-
ing these secrets to foreign powers,
and one or two men under suspicion
have been dropped from the navy. More
Importance it attached to the recent
arrest of George c. PARROT, an ex-
gunner Of the navy, one of the class
of petty officers who, under recent
regulations, are in line for promotiCl
TO the commissioned ranks.
PARROT, it was found, while doing
duty at the school Of gunnery, made
trips to Ostend, where, according to
evidence given against him, he was met
by a foreigner, with whom he spent
the evening. returning to England the
same night. As it is against the reSC-
dations for a bluejaczet or petty Of
ficer to leave England without leave,
PARROTS name was removed from the
navy list, and some months later the
police having discovered that he re-
ceived letters from the continent with
money enclosed, under an assumed
name, he was arrested
-7- hot bod
deposited considerable sums Of money
at his bank. One of the points of evil
dence against the prisoner is that the
bank notes he received had on one Oc-
casion or another been sent to Ger
many. This evidence was made pos
sible by the fact that at all banks 4
memorandum is made Of the numbers Of
Bank of England notes in the bank S
possession, and the disposition made
Of them In this case two of the
notes had been paid out to travellers,
who had changed them IN Germany.
Find Strange Tribes.
The British expedition under Gen.
Bower, which last year penetrated the
ArbOr country on the notheast from
tier of India, for the purpose of pun
ishinE natives for the murder Of a
British political agent, has brought
back some interesting information Of
that part of the world and of the even
less known district nOrthWard to the
Chinese frontier. Before the advent
of the Bower expedition, little was
known Of this heartbreaking cOUn-
try" a. A Bentinck. who accompanied
Gen. Bower, describes it, except that
it was inhabited by awkward tribes.
Few Englishmen had penetrated so
far, and the right of the Abors to turn
travellers back was unquestioned.
After Furnishing the tribes for the
murder of the political agent, for the
British government has a way Of i'm
pressing natives with the fact that
British lives must be respected the eX-
plOrerS pushed nOrthWard across deep
valley cIefts and hardly fordabIe rivers. /
One day they took seven hours to make
six miles. They found primitive hill
communities entirely unknown to En-
rope living on scanty crops, supple
mented by rats and squirrels SHARED in
the jungle and heard from them of
even remoter and more mysterious
tribes who were said to barter with 1
the Abors in human bodies. These
wild men live close to the snow line,
and the AbOrs spoke Of them with dis
gust and contempt. Still further be-
vond the snow mountains they heard !
of another unknown country where /
the people live in wooden houses, and !
have neither horses nor yaks.
MTTST Paw Up OR GET