Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16
Bomb Campaign Resumed
With Greater BoIdness
Than Ever.
SEVERAL new ATTACKS
Library and Church Among In
StitutiCnS Marked for De-
struCtion.

London, May 16.-Militant suffra-
gets campaign OF placing bombs in
public institutions to Coerce the gov
ernment into granting the franchise to
women was carried en- in several quar-
ters of London and Provinces today.
\ worknan!ike canister of explo-
siYes with clcckwork attachment
was found in Rotherhite public library,
in southeast London, this morning,
labeled Votes for women Accord
ing to belief in some quarters, it was
placed there by man. Indeed, the
police suspect many men are engaged
by the militants in this work.
Another machine was found in a
letter box at Wadsworth district post
Office, in southwest London. 1t con-
sisted of a glass tube containing
fluid. A partly burned fuse was at
tached to one end. The police de-
clared it was apparently set there by
militants.
Still another canister of explosives,
with a partially burned fuse, was
found in Holy Trinity church at Hast
ings. a popular watering place on the
south coast, where militants have been
active during the week.
PAPER STILL ISSUES.
Defeat has been inflicted on the gov
ernment by the wild women" in the
matter of the suppression of the mill
tant suffragets' newspaper, the Suf-
fraget.
After Counsel Bodkin had anrounc-
ed that the government would prose-
cute anyone printing the newspapef8
| in future the labor press and some lib
eral newspapers. which are the strong
est supporters of the present cabinet,
| protested that this was an infringe
ment of the liberty of the press. A
| former socialist member, George Lans-
! bury, and the socialist member, James
! Kerr Hardie, offered personally to un-
/ dertake the publication of the paper,
but the suffragets declined the offer
with scorn. Thereupon the home Of
I flee issued a statement declaring Bod
kin's pronouncement had been miscoI.-
Political union or any publisher could
issue the Suffraget, so long as it did
not contain any indictments to crime.
URGE WORKERS TO RESIST.
The special interest taken hy the
labor party in the question of suffrage
was aroused because labor newspape
had frequently come into collision
with the government. This is the case
in regard to general conscription for
the army, and in the event of this he
coming the policy of the government
which the labor party fears, labor
newspapers propose to urge working
men OF the British isles to resist it
This weeks number of the Suffraget
appeared today and was freely cirCu
lated. 1t was printed by the firm u
Edward Francis. The newspape.
says: Though he has constantly de
precated what he calls our methods
he undertook the work, believing tht
freedom of the press in danger, alst
gravely doubling the wisdom of thoss
who seem bent on depriving suffra
gets of their legitimate forms OF ex
preston"
OPERATE on MISS EMERSON
! Miss Zelie Emerson, an ardent suf
, fraget of Jackson, Mich. was operat
ed on today for appendicitis, said e
. have developed owing to deprivation
she underwent in carrying on til,
hunger strike" at Holloway Jail 81,
was released April s on account .
. her weakened condition and afte,
ward was taken TO a private hospita
| in the country to prepare for an OF
, Grafton. She was sentenced to ST
/ weeks Imprisonment .Feb. Il 70
d smashing shop windows.
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