The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-13
SHE COLLAPSED
FROM STARVATION.
General Flora Drummond Of Militant
suffragettes Is Too Sick TO Ap-
pear In Bow Street
Court.
MARCH UPON LONDON
Gigantic Demonstration to be Particl-
pated In BY One Hundred
Thousand Would-bs
Voters.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
a LONDON, May 13.-When the trial
OF the seven suffragettes and Edward
G. Clayton. the Richmond chemist, all
charged with conspiracy, was resum.
ed IN Bow street police court today,
General Mrs. Flora Drummond fail
cd to appear. A hospital surgeon tes-
tilted that she was unable to come to
court, having undergone complete
collapse from hunger striking.
The women on trial. including Miss
Annie Kenney. chief of the staff" to
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, are those
who were arrested when Scotland
Yard detectives raided and closed up
the headquarters OF the women's So
cial and political union in Kings
Way Clayton is accused of aiding the
militants by furnishing them infor-
nation about explosives and combust-
ibles.
Ramsay Mcdonald, laborite member
of parliament and chairman OF the
labor committee, has signified his
Willingness to publish the Suffragette
In defiance of the police suppression
order against that organ Of militancy,
and accept the consequences. Kier
Hardie has said that he will stand by
Mcdonald. The prosecution OF the
manager of the National Labor Press
for printing last weeks Suffragette ID
THE cause Of McDonald's offer.
The Daily Citizen, labor pubffca.
ltion, announces that Mcdonald Is OF
1.-THE opinion that the police have no
right to order the suppression of a
newspaper. or periodical before 1t is
issued, regardless OF what its contents
may be- On the theory that the po-
lice action against the Suffragette is
| a serious infringement of the right OF
| free speech and public policy, Nc
Donald is willing to put the matter
| to test.
A gigantic demonstration in behalf
oe votes for women is being arranged
| by the National Union Of Womens'
| Suffrage Societies, the non-militant
group. 1t is planned for an army OF
100000 women to march on London
/ from four directions, north, east, south
and west, the various divisions con.
verging in Trafalgar Square. The
women will start from Scotland, Wales
and the east and south coast towns,
gathering reinforcements as they
proceed along the main travelling
roads, the routes being SO mapped as
to touch most of the important cities.
/ The army is to be made up largely
of women who work for their living
and circulars are being sent out
broadcast asking all working women
who want the ballot to SO arrange
their vacations as to enable them to
participate In the demonstration. One
object Of the march will be to raise
| a large fund for the cause. Members
4 Of the union who cannot hike are
]expected to offer hospitality to the
4 travellers enroute and lend horses and
conyeyances.
Scotland Yard detectives who par
lticipated in the raid on the unions
Iheaduuarters and confiscated docu
ments they found there, swore that
4 the suffragettes had system for the
4 allotment of medals to militants who
went on hunger strikes In prison and
underwent forcible feeding. Because
of the absence of needed witnesses
the hearing this afternoon was ad
Iiourned until tomorrow morning.