The Washington times., 1913-04-04
WOMEN BLOW UP
STATION AND TRAIN
Suffragette Demonstrations Are
Held All Over England as
Leader Starts to Jail.
Continued from First PaeeD

Continued from First Page.)
taliation for the sentence passed on
Mrs. Pankhurst, today issued a gen.
eral warning to the public, and placed
extra guards at all stations, tunnels,
and along their tracks
Two hurrying women carrying suit
cases aroused the suspicion of South
London policemen today, and the wom-
On were arrested. They readily admit
ted that they were militants, and search
revealed that their suitcases were filled
with explosives and combustibles.
Beware Of how You treat Pank-
hurst was the legend on placards
found in possession of the women. They
were taken to the police station and
remanded for trial.
Battle Only Begun"
''The battle has Only begun cried
Mrs. Pankhurst as she was taken to
Holloway Jail.
England is now planning a concert
ed campaign to suppress the outbreak
Of desperate vandalism. The London
police are worried over the safety of
King George.
a The declaration of Mrs Pankhurst
that ''the logic of the torch and gum
powder is the only kind of argument
the government can understand" will
cause many wild outbreaks among the
suffragettes. 1t is believed.
The train blown up is said to have
been composed of empty cars. Sydney
Buxton, president Of the board of trade,
received today an anonymous warning
that number of railroad stations near
Birmingham is the next target of the
sudragette incendiaries-
Threaten Human Life.
A very militant declaration has been
telephoned by Christabel Pankhurst
from Paris, and this mornings Stand
ard learns that the militants have re-
solved. in consequence of the sentence
on Mrs. Pankhurst, no longer to respect
human life.
One of the militant leaders, in a state
ment to Standard reporter, said.
Human life now will, we have re-
solved. be respected no longer. and
trouble of all sorts may be expected"
The directions which ChristabeI Pank-
hurst telephoned from Paris were that
a manifesto should be issued from head
quarters containing threats of strong
reprisals. II reads in part:
why should not Bonar Law. Sir Ed
ward Carson, and other Unionist lead
ers be in penal servitude, when they
have melted not only the destruction
The sentence is an incitement to the
women to continue to fight with more
yigor.
'The fight will Inevitably be more
her>e from now onward. Mrs Pank-
hurst's sentence is certain to provoke
RETALIATION 0nr ie dicpraraA
IN the eyes Of the world because of
the fact that the government is pre-
pared to give penal servitude to wonl-
en- rather than the vote"
Annie kenney. at a suffragette meet
ing here last night, asked II people
thought that because Mrs. Pankhurst
was in prison the women were going
TO lie down like flock of sheep
Miss Kenney. would go On more furious
ly than ever. The women would send
q defiant message to the government.
that, unless their leader were let out,
they would go on from bad to worse.
Miss luke To Be Leader.
In the absence of Mrs. Pankhurst
and Christabel Pankhurst and the
illness of Sylvia PaIkhurst. the mil
itants are looking tor leadership to
Mabel Tuke, secretary of the union,
who is now in South Africa, but will!
hurry home and arrive in England in
as-month. At headquarters 1t is be-
neved that Christabel Pankhurst is
more useful in Paris than in England,
where she would be arrested.
It is believed that Mrs. Pankhurst
will be released shortly. She toll
friends that she was feeling i'll as al
result of the trial.
Home Secretary McKenna's bill, now
before parliament. to deal with hunger
strikers is not necessary in Mrs. Pank-
bursts case The home secretary al
ready has power in the case of prison.
ers undergoing penal servitude to IL
cense them out OF prison under such
conditions as he thinks fit.
When Mrs. Pankhurst was imprisoned
previously she adopted the hunger-I
strike, but was not forcibly fed, and It'll
IN considered unlikely that she will be
subjected to forcible feeding now. III
she refuses food she will entail for her
self long period Of starvation. fol-