Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-29
RIOTERS ARE JAILED TO Join GEN. JONES
Thrty-One English Sufra- Miss Constance Leupp Will
qettes Thrown Into Cells. March From New York.
THREATEN HUNGER STRIKE CLERKS MAY ENTER PARADE
Arrests Follow Wild About Civil Service Commission Rules
Parliament Building Favor Of Sufragts.
SHOP WINDOWS SMASHED SPEAKERS DEFY BAD WEATHER
Broken in door Meeting Held During
Mail Boxes by Women. Rain and Snow
Thirty-0ne English Suffra-
gettes Thrown Into Cells.
THREATEN HUNGER STRIKE
Arrests Follow Wild Scenes About
Parliament Building.
Glass in Government BUILDINGS
Broken and Liquid Poured in
Mail Boxes by Women.

| LONDON. January 29-"Gen" Mrs.
| Drummond and thirty other militant
| suHragetteS Will spend the next four
! teen days in Jail as the result of their
determination to force David Lloyd
| George. chancellor of the excheuuer.
to receive them as a deputation in the
| house of commons last evening All
the prisoners declared in court after
| they were sentenced today that they
would Immediately start hunger.
| strike"
| The accused women were brought
| up at Bow street police court before
Robert Marshall. police magistrate. and
the same sentence was imposed on all
Of them.
Mrs Drummond compla ined during
the nearing that the police had handled
| her roughly when she was arrested
She declared the patrolman had thrown
her in the mud.
Its War to the Knife
1T is now war to the knife" she told
the magistrate, and continued:
You and Mr.. Lloyd-George nave a lot
| OF trouble ahead of YOU You will
have to do the dirty work and you will
have plenty Of it,
The women all refused the option
which was offered them of paying a
fine instead of going to prison.
Sufragette riOting was general last night
While deputation. which Lloyd George
had refused to see until this morning
was trying to force it's way into parlia-
ment against an overwhelming force of
police and the members were being
placed under arrest for resisting the Of
ticers, other bands of women went
through Whitehall breaking windows of
the government offices and through
NfnpI- CT.
glass windows in the establishments of
shipping companies were ruthlessy
smashed.
Mail Boxes Attacked.
The women also visited Oxford, Regent
and other streets in the shopping district,
where similar damage was done. Later
mail boxes were attacked. quantities Of
liquid being poured into them.
In the outlying suburbs too. the suf-
iragists took steps to bring the cause be-
lore the public by damaging property.
Twenty-one women were arrested i'm
the vicinity of the parliament building,
but were allowed out on bail after the
house rose. Most of the police stations
had one or more prisoners charged
with destroying property.
The demonstration in Whitehall was
not as large as some Of those previously
held. the force of police and a drenching
rain uitutdtlnS against any great turnout.
Wild Excitement Reigns.
The widest excitement prevailed, how
ever. and besides protecting property and
arrestins women engaged in window
sma shing or refused to move on when
ordered. the police had the greatest diff
Guilty in protecting the women from an
unruly crowd of youths
In several cases the women were rough
ly handled. An attempt to duck four of
them in the fountain in Trafalgar
Square was frustrated by police posse
which had to ride through the crowd
Mrs. Pankhurst said that the with
drawal of the franchise bill. including
the speakers ruling. was a plot decided
on long ago, and Premier Asquith was
aware Of it. The answer to this treach-
cry she declared. rs militancy''
ChrlStObel Pankhurst. who is often re-
ferred to as the brains of the organiza-
ton. Is believed to be i'm London direct
Ing the demonstrations. She is known to
have left Paris, where she had been liv-
ing since a warrant for her arrest was
issued at the time her mother Mrs Eme-
line Pankhurst and Mr. and Mrs. Pethick
Lawrence were convicted, and all trace of
her is lost.
The damage to property last night
would have been much greater had not
shOpkeepers taken the precaution to
board up their windows.