New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27
BRITISH PRESS FEELS
FOREIGN CRITICISMS
London Papers Say Outside
Journalists Should Be Allowed
to Report Parliament.
CALL EXCLUSION A MISTAKE
Mrs. Emerson and Mrs. Pank-
hurst Have Falling Out"
Over Story About Ameri-
can Womans Daughter.
[Ry Cahlc 10 Tho Tribune I


London. April 26-The unkind criti-
'cism that England has been subjected
10 in the foreign press on account Of
the suffragette situation has got under
the skin Of the English papers and they
are calling attention TO the necessity
of giving foreign journalists a place in
the press gallery of the House of Com
mons in order 10 get true view Of
English politics
THE Westminster Gazette" deplores
the exclusion Of foreigners from tho
press gallery. and The Daily Chron-
ice" says:
our Is the only legislature that
treats foreigners thus. The serious no
litical consequences Of this exclusion
ought not 10 be overlooked II is lit
orally impossible for foreign news
paper 10 obtain first hand account %
the proceedings Of the British Parlia-
ment. This means not merely that
foreign newspapers have to depend on
English summaries. which often omit
or report slightly matters Of more spe-
cial interest 10 foreign than 10 British
readers, but also foreign journalists are
debarred from direct observation OF de-
bates which is so necessary 10 proper
idea Of the personalities engaged and
the relative weight attaching To their
uttcrances
THE foreign press has a just griev-
ance against us and one which those
concerned with our foreign relations
should be glad 10 see removed
Mrs. Emerson Annoyed.
Mrs. X. II. Emerson. mother Of Miss
Zelie Emerson. Is deeply distressed by
a statement made by Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst some time ago at public
meeting. Previously in the House Of
Commons. reference had been made by
a speaker to a militant suffragette in
the Holloway Jail who had sought 10
give herself pneumonia by lying un-
covered on her cot after sponging her
body with warm water. Mrs. Pank-
hurst said that this suffragette was
Miss Emerson. Mrs. Emerson and her
friends consider that Mrs Pankhurst
displayed bad taste in making the in
cident public and the relations between
them are said to have become rather
strained.
one Of the odd features Of the situa-
ton is the change in feeling experi-
enced by American mothers who go to
the American Embassy To ask aid in
having their suffragette daughters re-
leased from Jail. The mother usually
arrives in London. alone and unher-
aided, in a state of humiliation or NOR
tificaton over her daughters plight.
such a one stepped INTO the embassy
recently, having arrived i'm London but
an hour before. She implored the staff
10 use their best efforts to conceal news
of her daughters Imprisonment. Were
II made public. she said. weeping with
shame. she could never again face her
neighbors at home.
The militant suffragettes took the
mother in charge. They persuaded her
that her daughter Imprisonment was
a signal honor. TWO days later. with
head held high and eyes blazing. the
mother strobe into the embassy and de-
manded to know why the American
people had not been told that her
heroic daughter was suffering martyr
dom i'm an English Jail. on her second
visit a band Of militant suffragetteS
acpomna pied her