New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-27
mrs. PANKHURST BEGINS
LONG HUNGER STRIKE
Sent to Jail for 3 Months Await
ing Trial, She Starts Her
Protest at Once.
SACKS OF MAIL BURNED
Public Resentment Against Suf-
fragettes Reaches Point of
Trying to Duck Them in
Drinking Troughs.
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iBy Cable TO Tho Tribune
London, Feb. T.-Mrs. Emmclire
:Pankhurst has started the most defiant
hunger strike in history. The suffra-
gette leader was committed at the
EPSON police court Yesterday for trial
charge of melting some persons un-
Known to blow up Mr.. Lloyd Georges
house, at Walton on ihc-iiill on Feb
Yuary is AS she refused to accept bail
iuvolving AN undertaking to refrain
from melting to acts of violence for any
extended period and as the trial cannot
take place for three months she an
nounced her intention Of going to
vi son and starting hunger strike.
Mrs. Panllhurst arrived at Holloway
Prison. in the north II London. from
Epson I'm the Surrey police motor car
last evening. Her daughter Sylvia is
ats there on hunger strike. but they
arc not 10 nc allowed together
a Final Proclamation.
y shall take no food from tho mo
ment enter the prison" declared Mrs.
PankhurSt i'm = final statement last
.night. before the gates Of Holloway
prison closed on her.
Il repudiatc tho right Of tic legal
authorities over whose appointment
because 7 am woman. have no con-
troll TO try me- refuse TO consent to
q legal farce being enacted. and ! shall
begin by refusing TO conform 10 the
prison discipline while on remand.
'1f am still in prison and alive
when the time for this so-called trial
arrives. the Judge. counsel and Jury OF
mcu will have the shameful task of
pretending To give a fair trial to sick
and undefended woman. The men OF
the country. both in and out of Parlia-
ment will share the shame. Individ-
uals may perish, but the cause lives and
triumphs."
A Final Meal.
ON This bold note OF defiance Mrs.
Pankhurst. fortified by lunch OF cut
lets. confectionery and glass OF VINE
before she left EPSON was able to refuse
without any hesitation the not too in
vting prison supper. AS prisoner
on remand she could have her meals
sent in from restaurant if she wished.
but Mrs. Pankhurst said she would
starve first.
The question now arises: How long
can Mrs. Pankhurst who has recently
been in i'll health, keep up her hunger
strike? The prison authorities can, II
they think fit, order her TO be forcioiy
fed. and with a woman OF Mrs. Pank-
bursts determination this order may
have to be very sternly enforced if her
life is TO be saved.
suffragette raid on the pillar boxes
on "A most extensive scale was MADE at
Nottingham last evening, practically
every box on the route, six miles, being
visited Thin test tubes filled with
phosphorus were dropped in the boxes.
and these broke when the postmen
drew out the letters. One woman even
asked a postman TO wait while she
aropped a tube into his bag. which she
Aid and then bolted. Two postmen had
,heir hands burned. A motor mail van
driver had a thrilling experience when
a sack Of letters burst into flames, and
the fire brigade was called.
Moro Arson Intended.
Two women were arrested last night
al the All-England tennis grounds, at
Wimbledon, with bags containing IN
ammablc materials. II is supposed
.1at they intended to burn the pavilion.
Two others were surprised under SIM
uar circumstances at the Roehampton
cricket grounds, but managed 20 es-
cape. They left behind note reading'
This was done because bah was re-
fused 10 Mrs. Pankhurst."
Another raid on the telephone and
telegraph wires has been perpetrated'
MANY of the provincial lines were cut
and communication with the North
| Yesterday was rendered difficult.
1, ,arious parts of the country there