Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-21
FACE BIG PROBLEM
British Officials Hard Put to
Handle Suffragettes.
ACTIVITY OF SPIES ALARMS
Leaking Out of Naval Secrets Wor-
ries Authorities-Primitive
Peoples Found.

LONDON, December 13.-"Make them
outlaws This is the severe suggestion
of London lawyer to the authorities
who are at their wits end in dealing with
the militant suffragettes.
AS the women will not obey man
made laws" argues the barristcr. th.,
have no right to the protection Of those
laws.
While this newest proposition is not
likely to receive general approval. il is
admitted that some way must be found
to punish woman violators of the Law
without making them martyrs to the
cause" When they were arrested whole
sale and committed to prison for break
ing windows, attempting to set fire to a
Dublin theater and for other offenses.
they escaped by means of the hunger
strike None has been caught at setting
fires and pouring ink and other sub
stances into letter boxes, but Elsie
Howey. who has been sentenced to two
months imprisonment for turning in
false fire alarms. the latest device OF the
militants to influence men to give them
the vote, probably will become a hunger
striker.
Many plans, including that Of letting
them starve in prison If they refuse food.
have been recommended to the govern
ment, but none has thus far met with
acceptance. The lawyer quoted claims to
have legal authority for his suggestion
that the lawbreakers be declared outlaws,
with all that outlawry signihes-ignored
by the law. deprived Of police protection
and the rest. IL this appears too radical.
he would have them declared undesir-
ables. which would place 1t within the
power Of any magistrate to order their
removal beyond the shores OF the United
Kingdom.
Activity of Spies Alarms.
The British naval authorities have been
considerably perturbed OF late over the
way i'm which minor secrets OF British
ships have been reaching foreign powers,
and particularly Germany. the spies from
which country, 1t is asserted, are always
prepared with the biggest prices for any
thing pertaining to naval matters.
There have been several prosecutions
Of civilians charged with communicating
these secrets to foreign powers, and one
or two men under suspicion have been
dropped from the navy. More impor-
lance is attached to the recent arrest OF
George c. Parrot, an eE-gunner of the
navy, one of the class Of petty officers
who. under recent regulations, are in
line for promotion to the commissioned
ranks.
PARROT, il was found, while doing duty
at the school of gunnery, made trips to
Ostend. where. accord ng to evidence
given against him, he was met by for
eigner. with whom he spent tine evening.
returning to England the same night. As
it is against the regulations for blue
jacket or petty officer to leave England
without leave, PARROTS name was
moved from the navy list. and some
months LATER the police having discovered
that he received letters from the continent
with money Enclosed, under an assumed
name, he was arrested.
1t was also found that PARROT had de-
posted considerable sums of money at his
bank. One of the points of evidence
against the prisoner is that the bank
notes he received had on one occasion or
another been sent to Germany. This evil
dence was made possible by the fact that
at all banks a memorandum is made Of
the numbers Of Bank Of England notes in
the banks 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 Primitive Peoples.
The British expedition under Gen.
Bower, which last year penetrated the
Abor country on the northeast frontier
If India, for the purpose OF punishing
natives for the murder of a British pc
itical agent. has brought back some in
eresting information of that part of the
world, and of the even less known dis
riot northward to the Chinese frontie-.
Before the advent of the Bower expedi-
ion little was known of this heart
breaking country" as A. Bentinck. whD
accompanied Gen. Bower. describes 1t, e.
,ept that 1t was inhabited by awkward
RIDES. Few Engl.shmen had penetrated
20 far. and the right of the .Abors -
urn travellers back was unquestioned.
After Furnishing the tribes for the muir
Ter of the political agent. for the British
government has way OF impressing ma
ives with the fact that British lives
must be respected. the explorers pushed
orthward across deep valley clefts and
ardly fordable rivers. One day they took
even hours to make six mics. They
ound primitive hill communities entirely
Unknown to Europe, living on scanty
rops. supplemented by rats and squirrels
nared in the jungle, and heard from
hem Of even remoter and more mys-
erious tribes, who We're said TO barter
nth the Abors in human bodies. These
lid men live close to the snow 'ine, and
he .Abors spoke of them with disgust and
Still further beyond the snow
fountains they heard Of another I'M
nown country where the people live in
'ooden houses, and have neither horses