The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-17
WOMEN PELTED
WITH CLODS BY
JEER|NG CROWD
Then Mob Drags Them
Up and Down
Streets.
EYES BLACKENED
AND CLOTHES TORN
Hyde Park Scene Of Wild Dis
order When Sufragettes At
tempt to Deliver Addresses.
Police Battle for Half Hour
Before Getting Upper
Hand of Rioters.

London. March 1e.-The suffra gettes
who again attempted TO hold Sunday
afternoon meeting in Hyde Park, we're
mobbed by crowd Of 10000 persons
For two hours the park, where dem
onstrations until recently were held in
pence. and Oxford Street nearby were
tho sceneE of widest disorder.
The trouble began when General"
Mrs. Flora Drummond mounted "a
wagon and started to speak TO the
great assemb blage. which was largely
made up of youths who had armed
themselves with ammunition Of various
descriptions or with trunpets, mouth
organs and bells. She had hardly ut
tered word when a clod Of turf struck
her in the mouth
Tornado of Abuse.
Mrs Drurlmond maintained her good
nature, smiled at her tormentors and
continued her speech in the midst OF
n veritablc tornado Of abuse. cat-calls
ragtime choruses and cries OF Go
home to your childrenw
For half an hour the crowds shouted
sang and pelted the suffragette COM
mander-in chief. whose clothes soon
were mass OF mud. At last Mrs.
Drummonds speech. of which not n
word vas audible, came to an end, and
a younger woman took her place. She
Jared no better. The police called upon
the chairman to close the meeting
Under escort of n large force OF police,
mounted and afoot. the women were
led out OF the park. followed by a
1ccrtng crowd. which continued to pelt
them with missiles.
The police endeavored TO pilot the
women ~ the tube station hut the
crowd brushed them aside and ragged
the women UP and down the street
In the melee one woman's eve was
biackened and the clothes Of all were
torn lnn 1l haIelp1 no
half an hours struggle got the ,ppcr
hand
The attack on tho sufrraEettes was
preconceived long before their wagon
entered the park. Hundreds of bows
had assembled ready for mischief and
they caused a scene when the women
arrived such as liz seldom witnessed in
London park, where freedom of
speech is accorded the adherents of
every propaganda. The disorder con-
unued, despite the efforts of a par
ticuiarly. strong force OF police But
the crowd outnumbered them a hun
dred TO one. and II was Impossible to
prevent men from throwing their often
weil-aimed missiles AT the harassed
women.
One OF the speakers, a Miss Rogers.
collapsed az she was being escorted
from the park. and her clothes were
on the point OF being torn from her
when the police succeeded in rcscuipe
the woman.
1t WAS a regular stand-up fight be-
tween the police and the crowds. the
former striking out right and left and
enoeavoring To arrest the ringl aders.
others among the rioters. however.
would come TO the aid OF those seized
by the police and forciblv take them
out OF their hands.
Suddenly the cry would go up.
Here's one" and the police would
night their way TO a. fainting woman
wearing the unpopular badge OF the
"Women's Social and Political Union "
Every woman thus adorned was greet
ed with cries of "Incendiary," shop
nseaker' Take her to the Serpen-
tine-an artificial lake in the park
while the crowd sang. "Oh. You Beau
dies.
Calls Police Officers.
Mrs Drummond. speaking of the
Hyde Park affair this evening. said il
began by some boys shouting: Hello.
here's Mother Drummond" She de-
clared that the crowd had shown no
hostility. and that the trouble was
caused by the police in interfering.
with free speech and in their ohicious
manner trying to escort the suffra :
gettes from the park.
The Referee. Sunday journal de-
voted to sport and drama. says the de-
tails of an elaborate suffraeette Mot
to kidnap David Lloyd George. Chan
cellor Of the Exchequer, are only lust
beginning TO leak out
when the government learned of
the daring nature of the plot" the
paper says. the number of detectives
guarding Mr.. Lloyd George was laree.
ly increased"
Mrs. Drummond concluded by say
ing:
We didn't want an escort and we
don't fear the mob. and because we
trusted the mob and refused an escort
the police assaulted us"
Al hampstead Heath another suffra-
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