Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-03-05

GRAVE DANGER OF BLOODSHED
Police Dened by WOmen--L.atter Want
TO he Martyrs--Manr Sent 10 Pris1li-
scenes In How Street.

London, March J.-Onc million ue-
voted women. firm in the belief that
they have been refused rights guar
anleed them months ago By Premier
Asuuilh and the present British gov
ernment, and Stung TO anger by ihe
calm refusal OF Asquith and his col
leagues 10 grant them Il hearing.
have brought about situation that
Today threatens 10 overshadOw the
great labor troubles. The demon
strationS OF the women advocates oil
equal suffrage have reached point
where the police can no longer pre-
vent or control them. Violence. OF
Il type peculiarly aggravaLing. has
been ordered by the leaders and
wholesale arrests. instead OF check
ing it. have merely enhanced the de-
termination OF the women.
There is grave danger Today that
the outcome will be bioodshed. Ii
is known that Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
hurst and other leaders Of ultra MILL
IanI body hope this will come. AS
she was led away TO her cell last week
Mrs. Pankhurst declared the cause
would have been advanced ten years
had she been killed.
1T will take martyrs TO stir the
country 10 4 realization OF our bitter
determinations. she cried AT the
meeting that preceded the demon
straton that began the present fight.
And that is The spirit OF the women
who today shouted from the street
corners that the government must
yield
Mounted and foot police alike were
deIied by the women today. TheE
refused 10 move on ard when the Oh
ficers showed their horses against
Them they tried 10 drag The uniform
ed men 10 the street. The foot po-
Iicaman we're baited with n determin-
alton that proved nerve ruftling IN
The extreme. The women want to
he arrested. They are very strong
and their present hope now Is that
the iails will be filled until there Will
bc no place 10 coniine them. The po-
lice and magistrates know this. But
they also realize that as fast as
woman arrested for rioting is turned
loose she arms herself with nam
mer and goes back 10 break more WIN
dows. 10 throw stones and TO hon.
bard the OPPOSITION with arguments
to the cause.
Today Bow Street police court was
iammed with The women arrested IN
last nights demonstration. Most OF
them we're bound over for hearings
later. Two. Victoria Simmons and
Lillian Ball. noted leaders. were SEN
fenced TO two months Imprisonment
at hard labor.
They dramatically faced the ma
cistrate ana warned him that their
sentence simply meant further and
more severe demonstrations. De-
fanco was in their every utterance
and as they were led away. still
shrieking for The cause. their SIS
ters in misery checred them loudly.
The city looks as if it were in Il
state OF siege. Nearly every big
store window is boarded up. the
banks maintain special guards ont
side 10 keep the women away. Ihe
entire Metropolitan police is on con-
linual duty. Every one is kept NOV
ing and women suspected Of planning
violence are hustled into vehicles ana
rushed 10 the police stations 10 De
searched.
Hard labor was the portion meted
out today to score OF su1ragette
leaders, arrested for participating IN
last nights demonstrations when they
were arraigned in the several po-
lice courts. The sentences varied
from one 10 two months. according TO
the nature of the offense charged.
Most of the magistrates served not
ice on the women that hereafter all
sentences will include hard labor q
new departure. This will mean riot
Gus scenes within the prisons. as the
women say they simply will NOT work.