The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-16
AMERICAN SUFF UNDER KNIFEF0R
 APPENDICITIS
Outcome of Girls Hun ger Strike in HaI-
 IoWay Jail
London MiIifants Keep Up Ac- tive Campaign by Leaving
 Bombs in Public Places

GUtliUO alI uUi10 ] IQgGO
 London, May 16-Miss Zelie Emerson, 1 the militant suffragette of Jackson, | Mich, was operated on today for ap- pendicitis, which is said to have de- 1 veloped because of the privations that | she underwent while she was carrying 1 out hunger strike in. HalIoway jail.j She was released on April 8 on account | of her weakened condition and soon 1 afterward was taken to a private hos pitaI in the country to prepare ilsr- l self for the operation. She had been sentenced to eight weeks imprison- 1 ment on Feb 14 for smashing shop windows.
 The militant suffragettes' campaign of coercion by means of bombs. placed in public institutions in order to intimidate the British government into granting the parliamentary fran chise to women, was carried on in several quarters of London and the provinces today. A very workmanlike canister of the explosive with a clock attachment was found in the Rotherhith public i- brary in the southeast of London this
 morning. It was labelled Votes for Women The bomb was placed, ac- cording to the belief prevailing in some quarters, by a man, many Gf whom the police suspect have been en- gagged by the officers of the militant suffragette society for this work Another machine was found today. in the letter box of the Wadsworth dis trict postoffice in the extreme south west of London. It consisted of glass tube. containing fluid A partly burned fuse was attached to one end. The police declared that the placing of the bomb was apparently the work of She militant suffragettes.
 Still another canister of explosives with a partially burned fuse was found today in Holy Trinity church at Hastings, a popular watering place on the, south coast, where the militant suffra gettee have been most active during the past week.
 A bridge over the great Western 1 railway near Westbourne park station in the West End of London also was the object of a suffragette s'bomb'' at tack. The canister in this case was a larger one than those usually em- ployed. It was filled with five cart ridges closed in cotton wool saturated with paraffin oil The attached fuse The whole machine was wrapped in
 militant suffrage litera ture.
 A reflection has been inflicted on ] the British government by the wild 1 tion of the suppression of their news paper, the s'Suffragette.''
 After Archlbold Bodkin, counsel for | the treasury, had announced that the government would prosecute any one 1 printing the paper in the future the labor press and some of the liberal newspapers which are the strongest
 supporters of the present cabinet pro- tested that this was an infringement of the liberty of the press. George l Lansburgy, the former socialist mem | Der of parliament, James keir Hardie,
 socialist member of the House of Com
 mons, offered personally to undertake the publication of the paper but the
 suffragettes declined their offer with
 scorn.
 Thereupon the home office issued a statement declaring that MT. Bodkin's announcement had been mtsconstrued | and that the Women's Social and Po- IiticaI Union Or any publisher could is- l sue the S1lffragette so long as it did 1 not contain any indictments to crime, | Sydney Drew, the former publisher. l has written to the home office point l ing out that he was compelled to give | LID the undertaking and that he will not hereafter directly or indirectly take 1 part in printing the Suffragette or any | other organs of the Women's Social 1 and. Political Union.' He wants to 1 know what steps are now to be taken to relieve him from this undertaking l The special interest taken by the labor party in the question of the Suf- fragette was aroused because the la Dor newspapers frequently come into
 collision with the government This
 is the case in regard to general con lscription for the army, and in the event of this becoming the policy of
 the British Government, which the labor party fears, the labor newspapers propose to urge the workingmen or the British Isles to resist it.
 The militant suffragettes have re-
 newed their complaint that the govern rnent discrirninates between them and
 the Ulster Unionists. They point out
 that Sir Edward Carson has: gone to Belfast to open the new hall of the Drilling Club there, the object of
 which is to resist the Irish home rule government if it should be established The women want to know why Sir Edward Carson is permitted to advo- cate rebellion while they are imprison-
 ed for doing so.
 This weeks number of the Suffca- gette appeared today and was freely circulated. It was printed by the firm
 of Edward Francis. The newspaper says: Though he has constantly de:
 precated what he calls our methods he , undertook the work, .beliNvtng that the !, freedom of the press was in danger !, and also gravely doubting the wisdom
 of those who seem bent on depriV1ng
 the suffragettes of their legitimate
 forms of expression.
 The general tone of the newspaper is much nilder than it was before the
 raid on the militant suffragetteS head
 quarters and printing office
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