New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-06
MILITANT "ARSONETTES"
PLAN FRESH 0UTRACES
NitrogIyCerlne Bomb Lett IN
Observation-Disclosures Prize
Winner Poisoned.
BILL UP IN COMMONS
One Woman Goes on Rampage
in Newspaper Office, Smash
ing Furniture, Etc
Offenders in Court.
IRv Cable 10 Tho Trlhune.l

BY cable 10 7 nc Tribune.
London. May Ga bomb containing
sufficient nitroglycerine TO destroy
several blocks Of buildings and cause
large loss of life was mailed by suf-
fragettes in the southeastern district
postofice on Sunday. and was discov
cred Yesterday in time TO prevent
catastrophe. Several hundred men were
at work in the building. which is near
the southern approach TO London
Bridge, when an employe heard a queer
metallic sound as y package was
brought in and placed on the sorting
table. After the bomb had been soaked
i'm water il was examined at the po-
lice station and found 10 contain three
grains of gunpowder such as is used
in high power naval guns quantity Of
buckshot and a tube of nitroglycerine.
Champion Deg Poisoned.
THE Standard" i'm its evening edi-
tion asserts that the poisoning of The
Pekinese champion Choo-Tai the prop
erty Of Miss Violet Asshcton Cross,
last week. was the work Of militant
sufraget;es The dog died soon after
winning the championship al the
southampton show.
4 militant sufflagctte effected an en-
trance 10 The Standard" offices last
night and ran amuck through several
# the rooms. smashing furniture. The
woman Was finally elected by the
police.
These circumstances. coupled with
other outrages and new disclosures in
connection with the auffrasette cam
uaign Of destruction and riot. have
thrown England into state Of con-
eternation dismay and intense lndiGna-
ton. q. prominent English woman. for
merry very much in sympathy with the
militant movement. said to the Tribune
correspondent Yesterday.
Women are certainly entitled 20
vote. and [ believed in almost any
means 10 that end. hut | cannot ally
myself any longer with this group IF
crazy women anxious not for suffrage
but for advertisement. and willing 10
tear the whole fabric Of English law to
pieces solely for the sake Of self-slori-
fcation. / Go not believe any real
English woman can feel other than |
do"
II is part Of the campaign of the mil
itants. it would seem. 20 permit no day
10 pass without committing fresh
outrage Yesterday a plot by arson
cites" as they are now called. to
vrcak damage TO the extent of $lO0.uV
i'm some naval dockyard was revealed.
also ii iendishly ingenious scheme TO
scatter sneezing powder simultaneous
ly in every theatre and music hall in
London
Public feeling is now directed not
alone against the active militants but
at the silent sympathizors who have
been furnishing tho money 90 carry on
the night. Archibald Bodkin. Crown
Prosecutor. said Yesterday that the
government is now considering the
legal position of the persons whose
signed checks were found in the recent
raid on suffragette headquarters.
In the House Of Commons.
1t would le difficult TO imagine a
more inauspicious time for the consid-
Grafton Of woman franchise measure,
vet the present situate did not deter
Willoughby H. Dickinson, Member OF
Parliament for North St Pancras
d.ondon). from moving in the House OF
Commons yesterday the second reading
Of his measure. This bill proposes to
snfranchise six million women. the
vital sections Of the bill being As fol-
lows:
l. Every woman who
ca II she we're man would he en-
titled TO he registered as parlia-
mentarN electOr in respect of a
household qualification within the
meaning Of the representation Of the
people act 1884, OF
On is the wife of Il man entitled to be
registered IN respect OF household
qualification and mas resided IN the
qualifying premises during thc period
required by law 70 enable a person
10 be so registered
shall he entitled to be registered and then
registered to vote as "a parliamentary
elector I'm the constituency wherein the
qualifying premises are situate.
. woman shall not be entitled 10 be
registered unless she has ATTAINED tire are
Of twenty-five years.
2. A woman shall not he disqualified by
reason OF marriage from bei@g REGISTERED
and vOting.
The bill is backed 10y seven Liberals,
two Unionsts and two Labor members.
While it meets with the wishes of most
Of the men supporters Of woman suf-
frage. IL does not go far enough for
others. The parties are hopelessly di-
vided. and even the members of the
cabinet are widely set asunder on the
question.
The members when they arrived at