The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-03-05
WOMEN RAID
LONDON SHOPS
infuriated suffragettes Also Attack
Home Of Premier Asquith With
stones, Bolts and Decayed veset-
abies.

London, March Amid scenes Of
unprecedented disorder and panic, a
mob of Infatuated amazons swept
through the fashionable shopping dis
tricts tonight wrecking the great
glass windows, and lodging among
the traffic to escape arrest and MAX
ing their way steadily toward the
homes of Premier Asquith and his
associates in parliament, where they
vented their fury with cries OF equal
suffrage" interpreted with flying
stones. bolts and vegetables. The
damage is estimated at 100000.
The demonstration was the most
violent in the annals Of the suffrage
campaign and before quiet was re-
stored a pistol ball crashed through
window in the colonial office and
over 14S frenzied women, among
them Mrs. Pankhurst, have been lod-
ged behind the bars of the local jails.
Raid a Surprise
The raid came like bolt from
clear sky and followed stormy
mass meeting of the militant suffra-
gettes, where the dilatory tactics Of
Premier Asquith relative to the suf-
frage question in particular were at
tackled with fiery speeches.
BY a preconcerted plan the women
left the hall in twos and threes, TAX.
ing taxicabs, and street cars to the
chosen point of attack, the fashion
able west end, near the Haymarket,
oxford Circus and Band street,
where they stepped from their vc-
hicles and began CALLING fire upon
the expensive show windows of the
shops. Windows were also broken
in Picadilly, the Strand, Regent street
and Trafalgar square.
Officers Dazed
The police for a moment were at
a loss to single out the marauders
from the crowd of fear-crazed shop
pers, and the suffragettes, produc-
ing hammers from their muffs. and
opening large bags which contained
weights darted here and there In
the confusion, while the roar Of shat
tered windows, mingled with the
cries of the women and the curses OF
the shopkeepers, added to the gener-
al excitement.
More reserves were called out.
Police charged the disheveled mass
of humanity, clearing the streets,
and arresting every unescorted fe'
male on which they found missiles
of destruction, while the shopkeepers
hurridly put up shutters and gratinss
to protect their windows from fur
Their onslaught.
Many single acts Of vindictiveness
marked the onslaughts. Mrs. Pank
hurst kept hurting stones even af
ter her arrest, and when she was ar
raigned at the police station, still
had three unused missiles in mel
handbag.
Resisted Vigorously
Other women drove up to the shops
in cabs and when ushered up tc
the entrance by uniformed employ
ees, suddenly drew hammers from
their muffs and attacked the wind
ows, endangering those who were
passing. Those about Premier AS
quiths home, under the persona
direction Of Mrs. Pankhurst, were
particularly aggressive, resisting the
police vigorously as long as they hat
stone to hurl
Most of the women were taken tc
the Vine street jail, where they were
released on bail and promptly at
tended the suffrage meeting II
Queens hall where Mrs. Pankhurst
after her release, brought down
burst of applause when she and he'
daughter, Cristobel, urged the womei
to further riotins in Mondays demon
stration against the governments az
titude toward their reform bill.