The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-24
wake OUTLAWS Of
THE "SUFFRAGETTES
That is Severe Suggestion of
London Lawyer in Deal
ing with Situation.

London, Dec. 23.-"Make them ont.
laws!" This is the severe suggestion
or a 'London lawyer to the aiIthnri.
ties who are at their wits ends IN
dealing with the militant s%uffragettes.
AS the women will not obey man
haae laws. argues the barrister. they
those laws. u
WINE this newest proposition is not
,!hei! 70 receive general approval, it
10 admitted that some way: must be-
Iound to punish women violators of
- law without making them martyrs
rested Wholesale and committed to
prison Tor brea king windows, attempt
ing TO set ire to a Dublin theater and
Tor other offenses, they escaped by
means OF the hunger strike. None has
Dsen caught at setting fires and pour
ter boxes. but Elsie. Howey, who has
oeen sentenced to two months inn
prlsonment for turning in false firc
alarms. the latest device Of the mill
n to influence men to give them
ger striker.
Many plans, including that of let
.ing them starve in prison If they
Ietuse Tod, have been recommended
70 the government. but none has thus
TAR met with acceptance. The lawyer
quote s claims to have legal authority
ers be declared outlaws. with ali thae
outiawry signities-ignored by the
law, deprived Of police protection anil
the rest; II this appears too radical,
ne would have them declared unde-
slsaoies. which would place it within
the power OF n magistrate to order
their removal beyond the shores Of
the United Kingdom.
The British naval authorities have,
oeen considerably -%perturbed of late
over tne way IN which minor secrets
foreign powers. n particularly Ger
many, the spies from which: country.
II is asserted, are always prepared
with the biggest prices for anything
pertaining to naval matters.
Ihere' have been several prosecu-
lions Of civilians charged with COM
municating these secrets to foreign
powers, n IL or two men under
suspicion have been dropped. from
the navy. More Importance is. at
fached to the recent arrest of George
=. PARROT. an ex-gunner Of the a
n Of the class Of petty officers who.
under recent regulations. are in line
for promotion to the commissioned
ranks.
PARROT: it was found. while doing
duty at the school OF gunnery. made
seANo " OolCAINS wllSI0S dCCCIO1nK LII
evidence given against him, he was
met by a foreigner, with whom he
spent the evening. As 1t Is against the
regulations for a b%luejacket or petty
ofhcer to leave England without leave.
PARROTS name was removed from the
police having discovered that he re-
! letters from the continent with
money enclosed, under an assumed
name. he was arrested.
1t was also found that PARROT had
deposited considerable sums of money
at his bank. One of the points of evi-
tdence against the prisoner is that. the
bank notes he received had on ona
occasion or another been sent to ~>r-
This evidence was made posi-
BILE by the fact that at all banks IL
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 trav-
elers. who had changed them in Ger
II British expedition under Cen
Bower. which last year penetrat-
the Abor country on the northeast
frontier Of India. for the purpose Of
furnishing natives for the murder of IL
back som interesting information of
n a part OF the world, and of tho
even less known district northwarI
to the Chinese frontier. Before the
advent Of the Rover expedition, It'll.
was known of this heartbreakins
country" as A. Bentinck. who ccom
panied General Bower, describes II.
except that 1t was inhabited by awk.
ward tribes. Few IInglishmen mad
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 he,
British government has a. way of inn
pressing natives with the fact th,.
British lives must be respected. IN"
explorers pushed northwurd across
deep valley clcfts and hardly fordailc
One day they tonk seven
hours to make SIX miles. They found
hill communities entirely
unknown To Europe. living on sulniy
supplemented by rats and SOUR
rels shared III. the jungle. and heard
mysterious tribes who were said to
barter with the Abors in hulnau
bodies. These wild. men live ciosc tn
the snow line. and thc Abors spokc
of them with disgust and contemn,'