El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-17
SUFFRAGE 8
mEHAGED BY
TAX WAR
English Tax Collector Be
lieves Raid on Treasury
Would End Militancy.
BRITISH SEAMEN MAY
GALL GENERAL STRIKE

= ONDON, ENGLAND, May 1.-THE
two militant suffragets who re-
- Gently captured The Monument"
Wsen's masterpiece, which stands near
the northern approach to London
bridge, COMMUNICATING the great fire
of 1866. knew that they were In grave
danger of personal injury from the eN-
asperated crowd which gathered about
the base Of the structure, out Iney
have not vet learned that their tenn
pOrary abode was IN even greater peril
Overlooking the monument Is one OF
his maiesty's tax collecting offices,
and IN the office sat one OF that type
of the kings tax collectors who never
overlook anything that may add to the
Lloyd George budget.
Tax Would Decrease Funds
This collector. after hastily reading
the law relating to the imposition OF
the inhabited house tax, sought the
police inspector in charge Of the squad
besieEing the monument and begged
him for permission TO present the sur
fraget garrison with a demand for IN
habited house duty on the ground IhaI
having dispOssessed the caretakers the
two women were the de factO occu-
pants of the structure As the tax col
lectOr mOurnfully confessed later, the
INSPECTOR was the usual type OF Lon
don police official without the reQui-
site Imagination to grasp the possl-
bilities of THIS counter stroke, ana
he refused to permit the levylng OF
the demand The collector stated
that the tax would have made no small
hole IN the war chest Of the mill
tants. because he flattered himself that
the adjusters would permit a rather
steep assessment on this 'DeauJIu
structure.
Test Recruits With Fake Bombs.
The innocuous bombs which have
been discovered near various banks IN
London recently were not placed there
by practical jOkers. as the police have
Frra nraHfH rlfH IN naN T.
ing TO a member of the militant or
ganizatiOn, the fake explosives were
lett by recruits Of the Women's Social
and Political union, who were beInS
tested by their leaders as-tO their tit
ness for more serious forays-
1t seems that a militant member
who was suspected of being an agent
OF Scotland yard was given a bomb
i was Of the usual milk can variety,
filled with black powder, and with an
electric fuse attached The suspected
member fastened TO scotland yard
with the bomb, where it was very
gingerly conveyed TO the department
which makes specially OF handing
these dangerous cOntrlVances- AFTER
the fuse was removed the powder was
submitted TO the Scotland yard chem
ist who, after a brief examination,
pronounced the substance ordinary
wheat flour, mixed with lamp black.
The woman was then permitted to
place the bomb as originally planned
but Scotland yard fears that the use
fuiness OF Its agent IS al an enu pc
cause she was shadowed to the yard
by members Of the W. S. P. c.
Plan Safety at Sea.
A conference Of the leading maritime
nations Of the world will be held In
London early next autumn with the
purpose Of establishing on an interna-
tional basis the new regulations for
the safety Of life and property at
sea
sultatiOn viii be held, at which time
the report of the committee on bulk
heads appointed to advise as to the
Watertight subdivision of all mer-
chant ships, viii be available. Mean
while the different countries concerned
are making preparations, and so far
as the GfesaTing rules are concerned,
opinions have been inteTchanged for
some time The new international
radiO-telegraphic convention will come
into operation next July This is the
outcome Of the international wireless
convention
General Strike Of seamen-
A general strike of British seamen
IS to be declared early in June as the
sequel TO the agitation for national
cancellation board to regulate work
ing conditions on board ship, and 1t is
possible, unless the demand is acceded
TO that the transport workers through
out the country viii come out'in sym
The actual date Of the strike viii be
kept secret, as it was two years ago,
the giving of the signal being left to
Havelock Wilson, the president Of the
union.
Guns for Merchant Ships.
The first merchant vessel to leave
England armed in accordance with the
proposals Of Winston Churchill, first
lord of the admiralty, has sailed for
South America She is the Aragon, OF
the Royal Mail line, and she brings
home from the Argentine great guam
titles Of chilled meat Her sister ship,
the Amazon, which IS now cOmpleI-
ing will be similarly outfitted- The
necessary structural arrangements
were made while the ships were build
ing. and TO each vessel the admiralty
has supplied two Al inch guns The
officers and seamen Of the steamers
include a large number Of royal naval
reserve men, who in case Of an emery
ency would be capable of manning the
This armament is. Of course, not in
tended for offensive purposes, out the
admiralty believes Inat Tor defensive
PURPOSES IT is sufficient to cOunteract
the risk of attack from lightly armed
foreign merchant ships It IS the IN
tenti0n that a, large number Of steam
ers, especially those engaged IN carry
ing food supplies, shall be thus armed
in the future.
The scheme is entirely separate from
that by which larger steamers, such
as the Mauritania and Lusitania and
the new steamers proposed Tor the
Canadian service are under CONTRACT
with the government to be armed IN
case of war for both offensive and de-
fensiYe purposes
The German government has sim
liar arrangements with the German
lines, some of the vessels Of which are
so built that they could be converted
into very formidable merchant cruisers.
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