The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14

cLAMoR1NG FOR VOTES
Queen Turned Her Back While King
Grinned But Blushed to
the Roots of His
/ Hair.

| United Press Leased Wire Service.l
! LONDON, Dec. 13.-Militant suf-
fragettes, enraged at the re-arrest of
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, tonigh:
interrupted the opera Joan of Arc at
Convent Garden with King George
and Queen Mary in the royal box. I'VE
urge your, majesty to prevent the
state of affairs by bringing pressure to
bear to force the government to give
women the vote,' shouted one wild
woman, bolder than the rest, who
crowded to the rail of the royal box
and spoke directly to the king.
The suffragette demonstration start
ed at the end of the first act of the
opera and the scene that followed
was far more dramatic and exciting
than anything that happened in the
scheduled performance. A group of
A militants occupied the proscenium box
opposite to that In which sat their
niajesties and their suite. When the
first intermission came, the women
stood UP and waved huge banner
inscribed: Women are being tor
tured in your majesty's prisons
The bolder woman, apparently the
leader, left the suffragette box and
: went across the pit to the royal box
When she began to address the king
/, the audience was too astonished tc
mere than gasp but in a moment the
3 spell was broken and people all ovel
s. the house arose to their feet excited
ly. The woman's voice was complete
: ly drowned out by Kisses, and cries o.
"put her out!" Her last audible
words were a bitter denunciation O
1.-THE re-arrest of Mrs Pankhurst ant
the forciole feeding of prisoners.
Queen Mary frowned angrily ant
turned her back on the woman while
King George flushed to the roots o
his hair and forced grin but did no
turn away.
In the midst of the hub-hub, whei
men and women We're excitedly stand
ing on their chairs, all over the house
the manager and several ushers rush
ed to the royal box and hustled th
woman to the street. Other usher
to leave the theatre and group O
militants in the gallery who had beel
dropping suffragette literature int
:, seats, were also elected. No arrest
We're made
While the suffragette outbreak wa
: in progress at Convent Garden, ther
!, was big demonstration by the won
"a en- at Holloway jail, where Mrs. Panl
!, hurst re-arrested on a London trai
q at Dover on her return from Par!
h had tonight inaugurated another hui
/. ger and thirst strike. A militant ban
10 played the Marseillais under the ba
et red windows of the prison, and
IA Ranger, an American suffragette syn
w pathizer, sang several songs of HI
3. own composition.
" Members OF General Flora Drum
n. mond's body guard picketed Hollowa
1T jail all night.
N "The arrest of Mrs. Pankhur
ct shows that the government is in de
le perate straits, said Mrs. Dacre Fo
leader of the Women's Social an
ys Political Union. tonight "scotlan
to Yard at first declared that her week
o, license had expired. Now they adm
r. that the license had not quite expire
,r. but say she violated its terms by lea
C. ing the country Scotland Yard me
ch saw her leave and made nc effort
tt stop her.
n THE fact that the government
n. terrorized was demonstrated by Il
u great number of policemen who we
IN at the railway station when MI
m Pankhurst was brought from Dove
re Passengers thought a. royal visit
in must be arriving"