The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-04-04

Mrs. Pankhurst being escorted to jail.
Below. Mrs. Pankhurst and her daugh- !
ter in prison garb, serving previous
sentence. Din, r- no a
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nv Federal Wireless TelegraphJ
LONDON, April Especial to The
Advertiser) - Self confessed instigator
of the recent suffrage reign of terror,
Mrs. Pankhurst was placed on tr al to-
day at the Old Bailey, London S his
lturic central criminal court, charged
with melting her followers in their at
tempt to blow up Chancellor of the Ex-
ohequer Lloyd Georges country home
at Walton Heath, on February 10 last.
Mrs. Pankhurst pleaded not guilty,
without a show of emotion, calmly an
nouncing that she intended TO act as
her own attorney. The militant arriv-
ed at the Old Bailey in an auto and
was escorted into court by score or,
more militant suffragrette leaders.
Fight to Bitter End.
Before pleading to the charge, Mrs.
Pankhurst sent this message to sutfra-
gettes: 81 fully expect conviction and
am prepared for the fortunes of prison
and forcible feeding. But, l will fight
to the bitter end. L won't hesitate to
use every means for possible escape or
to obtain my release, though | am sure
of technical conviction in this court.
We already have made plans for
great demonstration at Albert Hall
lnext January. No matter how this
case goes, l will be out by then and
will address that meeting.'
Mrs Pankhurst was released on bail
after the adjournment. She renewed
: promise of good behavior pending the
+ outcome of the trial.
A Sex War.
LONDON, March 19-The latest
phase of the sutfragette movement,
namely, the outbreak of mob violence
$ against the militants, though long an
ticipated, is exciting much uneaslness,
las there is no saying to what lengths
: it may be carried. The Globe today
warns the government that such spec
tacles as that Of Sunday in Hyde Park
are bringing England to the verge OF
sex war, and are calling forth the
basest instincts in the human brutes
who exist on the outskirts of society.
The women suffragrettes having them
: selves appealed to violence and law
lessness, now run the risk of provok-
ing the unruly elements to carry vio-
lence to a point where bloodshed will
be inevitable.
The spectacle, renewed again yester-
terday, of women lawbreakers escaping
imprisonment by the trick of the hun
ger strike, infuriates men who know
: how certainly they will have to suffer
the full penalties of their own law
: breaking. The Globe demands that
open-air meetings of the militant suf-
fragettes be prohibited while the ex-
citement lasts, and that the hunger
strikers be left to starve if they per
sist in refusing good prison fare.
Home Secretary's Defence.
LONDON, March 19.-Mr. Reginald
McKenna, the home secretary, defended
himself with considerable warmth in
he house of commons yesterday in re-
plying to the attack of Harold Smith,
who criticized the home secretary Is
methods of dealing with the sutfraget-
fes. OF sixty-two women who had been
sentenced to Jail since the beginning
bf the year, only eight, he said, had
been released before the competition OF
heir terms because they refused to
Eat. These were suffering from com
plants (which prevented forcible feed
ng.
The efforts of some of the militants
o make martyrs of themselves were
described by Mr.. McKenna. One
woman, he said, had sponged herself all
bver with hot water and had remained
uncovered all night in the hope of
atching her death of cold. Others pre-
ended 10 take their food but sur
eptitiOusly starved themselves SO as TO
become exhausted and die in prison.
some had voluntarily tortured them
elves by thirst, refusing 10 touch milk
pr water. They were aetuated by the
anatieal determination not merely to
BRING the law into contempt but Ia
make martyrs Of themselves so that
heir heroic example might act as a
timulus TO others engaged Ia the cause
oounaels Patience.
Mr.. MeKenna said that bis expert,
nee with the suifTageites had shown
i'm that the militanta could only be
eali Yith individually aud hy udnp
laiienee Humanity be believed would
loniy but surely break doen ibs
nos emfni
sif Arthur Markham, Liberal mem
'ff remarked tial iheif vas ! con-
piracy nfopt among che militant suf
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