New-York tribune., 1912-03-05
Band of 200 Students RetaIiate
by Smashing Windows of
WOmen'S Press Bureau.
BRITISH MUSEUM CLOSED
Royal Academy Shuts It's Doors
in Fear of Infuriated Women
Lord Chancellor's
Home Attacked.
LRy Gable TO The Tribune !


suffra gettes than they are about the
| progress of the coal strike Something
! like a state of panic prevails among the
| Shopkcepers of the West End. and fan
/ tastc rumors are in circulation as to
/ future raids.
| The government is, of course. being
( blamed for its failure TO cope with the
situation. while the police say they can
| not possibly he in every part OF London
| in sufficient numbers to Illustrate organ
| lied campaign violence and destruction
| Mr.. Asquiths reply TO question put
to him yesterday in the House of Com
mons shows that the government is con-
sidering how far the conduct Of the win
dow smashers can be brought under the
general law Of conspiracy. To send in
dividuaI women to prison for couple
| of months or so for wanton attacks upon
property has been proved t. he almost
useless. The offenders glory in their
martyrdom.
| II. however. II can be proved that any
particular society is responsible for or
canizing the raids the members of that
society become guilty Of criminal con
spiracy. and in such case the society It
self ought obviously TO bc suppressed
and it's funds sequestrated.
| The advice of the law officers OF the
crown after Friday nights raid was
that on the evidence available there
was Just the possibility that a prlma
| facie case for conspiracy could be mace
ont. 1t was not deemed advisable To
take action at that time, but the ponce
authorities were cautioned TO keep their
ewes open for future developments. ana
as a result Of these observations ana the
discovery of certain documents IN the
possession Of one of the prisoners II y
bolieved that new facts have been lali
before the legal advisers Of the govern
ment.
one thing certain Is that If the pres
ent law IS found to he Inadequate u
meet the case there will be a widespread
demand for it's immediate amendment
Iondon. March THE much adVer-
tised meeting of the suffrcSettes IN far-
lament Square tonight, TO protest
against the refusal of Premier Asqul'h
70 receive a deputation. proved hasCo
so far as concerned the sensational ais
plav of militant Irowcss and cunning
which was predicted 10y the organizers
About nftv women were arrested 'ut
the damage done was inconsideraple as
compared with Fridays raid.
While the militant suffragettes were
vainlv endeavoring TO break through the
Gordon OF police round about Parliament
Souare. two hundred medical stuuehtS
organized a raid on the suhraBet'es
premiseg 10 pay them back In their own
coin. Marching 10 the building occupied
nv the women's press bureau In Charins
Cross Road. where there was big dis-
play of suffrage literature, they pom
harded II with stones. smashing all the
windows. TO an accompaniment OF cheers
from the delighted spectators.
Another band, also bent on retaliation
attacked the international suffrage shop
IN Adam street. the Strand, smashing a
big plateglass window and wrecklhs the
front Of the building.
I'm the mean time the sui1ragettes
were being baked in all attempts to
hold a meeting. The police who were
corewarned. adopted elaborate precau-
tions. Mounted police were stationed at
short intervals along the main thorough
fares leading to Parliament, while solid
phalanxes of foot police lined the curbs
Woman and Tree Moved On.
Long before the signal was given by
the firing Of rocket from the suf-
fragette headquarters at Clement Inn ijr
the needing to begin huge crowd filled
Trafalgar Square. Whitehall and the ad-
iacent streets. Notwithstanding the
vatchfulness of the police, one suffra-
gette succeeded IN smashing half
dozen windows in the government Of
fees.
A woman chained herself to tree In
Whitehall, and, unable to remove the
chain. the police uprooted the tree with
tho eu0ragette still attached and car
RED both off to the police station. Tho
aspect of the streets, not only in the VI
cinity of Parliament but at consider
able distance therefrom, gave evidence
oC the extent TO which the suifragettes
have terroriZed London. large num-
her of shous were closed and shuttered
long before the usual time. Others not
nrovided with shutters were boarded up.
Even I'm the City, far from Parliament,
hanks and other big establishments
were protected 10y shutters or were
boarded up and barricaded, for London
bae learned that when the suffragettes
are ON the rampage it is impossible to
tell where they will break loose.
The most striking testimony to the
fear they have inspired is afforded by
the action OF Sir Edward Poynter. who
announced that the exhibition Of oil
~ aters al the Royal Academy would be
closed to-day-a fortnight earlier thar
,yas intended. 1t was thought that the
euffrarettes might attempt to damage
the pictures
Fooled in their efforts to hold a dem
opstration. a number Of suffragettes or
eanized a window smashing raid In VIC
toria street.
Tbe suffragettes began operations
early. During the morning sinai
hand of them, armed with hammers ana
stones went through the KnightsbridSe
aud Brompton Road district in the
vest End Of London, breaking the plate
glass windows Of the big drygoods stores
situated In that neighborhood.
AS usual. owing to the disturbance