The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-02-01
JAILS ARE FILLED
WITH SUFFRACISTS
General Mrs. Drummond and
Thirty Other Militant Suffragettes
Prison.

London, Jan. 'General MIS-.
Drummond and thirty other militant
suffragettes will spend the next
fourteen days in Jail because Of their
determination to force David-Lloyd
George, chancellor of the exchequer,
to receive them as a deputation in
the house of commons last evening.
All the prisoners declared in court
after they were sentenced that they
would Immediately start a hunger
strike"
Mrs. Drummond complained that
the police handled her roughly when
she was arrested. She declared the
patrolman had thrown her in the
mud.
"It is now war to the knife" she
told the magistrate, and continued:
"You and Mr.. Lloyd George have a
lot of trouble ahead of you.
"You will have to do the dirty
work. and you will have plenty Of
It."
The women all refused the option
which was offered them of paying
o fine instead of going to prison.
MANY RIOTS.
While a deputation, which the
chancellor OF the exchequer, David
Lloyd-George, had refused to see
until today was trying to force its
way into parliament last night
against an overwhelming force of
police, and women were being ar
rested for resisting the officers, the
other bands of women went through
Whitehall breaking windows of the
government Offices, and through
Cockspur street, where the great
plate glass windows in the estab-
lishments OF shipping companies
were ruthlessly smashed.
The women also visited Oxford,
Regent and other streets in the
shopping district, where similar
damage was done. Later, mail
boxes were attacked, quantities of
liquid being poured into them.
In the outlying suburbs, too, the
suffragettes demanded property.
Thirty-one women were arrested
in the vicinity of the parliament
building, but were allowed out on
bail after the house rose. Most of
the police stations had one or more
prisoners charged with destroying
property.
The widest excitement prevailed,
and besides protecting property and
arresting women engaged in window
smashing, or who refused to move
on when ordered the police had the
greatest difficulty in protecting the
women from an unruly crowd of
youths who gathered and jostled
every woman wearing suffragette
colors.
In several cases the women We're
roughly handled. An attempt to
duck four of them in the fountain
in Trafalgar Square was frustrated
by police posse which had to ride
through the crowd.
The entire deputation of thirty
one women who attempted to make
their way into the house of com
George was arrested. The prisoners
included Mrs. Drummond and Sylvia
Pankhurst who marched in front.
Bfore starting on their mission, the
delegates listened TO addresses by
Mrs. Emmeline Panknurst and other
leaders.
Mrs. Pankhurst said the with
drawal of the franchise bill, includ-
Ing the speakers ruling, was plot
decided on long ago, and Premier
Asquith was aware of it,
The answer to this treachery,"
she said, sis militancy."
Sylvia Pankhurst declared their
intention was TO hold the speaker
in the chair and leave Mr.. Asquith
on the bench and with this the dep
utation started. The police gave
them safe escort as far as the en-
trance OF parliament, when an in
spector informed them that the
chancellor OF the exchequer would
be unable 70 see them until morn
ing.
Mrs Drummond retorted: This
IS tomfoolery. Ii you do not let us
IN there will be trouble"
At that the members OF the dep
utation threw themselves at the
police, who stood six deep across
the entrance