Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-17
Missiles PeIted 
 At Suffragettes
SPEAKERS MoBRED BY CROWD
 OF 1000 PERSONS.
STRUCK IN THE FACE
Hats and Cloaks Torn Off by Rioters,
 Who Were Largely Youths-PoIios
 Make Poor Showing Aeainst Thsrn.

 Make Poor Showing Aesinst Thsrn. London, March 1S.-The suffragetteE who again attempted to hold a Sunday afternoon meeting in Hyde Park were mobbed by 8 crowd of 10000 persons. They. were pelted with clods of turfs oranges and other missiles, and when the police were escorting them from the scene, the rioters tore off the hata | and cloakS of the women, and even struck some of them in the face. For two hours the park, where dem | onstrations until recently were held in
 peace, and Oxford street. nearby, were l the scenes of widest disorder. Crowd Largely of Youths. The trouble began when General" Mrs. Flora, Drummond mounted a wag- on and started to speak to the great assemblage. which was largely made 1 up of youths who had armed them 1 selves with ammunition of various de- scriptions, or with trumpets, mouth or gans and bells. Her appearance at the l front of the platform was the signal for an outburst of deafening noise and a bonbardment of missiles. She had | hardly uttered a word when clod of 1 turf struck her in the mouth. Mrs. Drummond maintained her good nature, smiled at her tormentors and l continued her speech amid a veritable | tornado of abuse, ragtime chorusss ! and cries of "Go home to your chil- ! dren."
 Police Close the Meeting. For half an hour tho crowds shout i ed, sang ana pelted the suffragettS commanders -in-chief, whose clothes
 were a mass of mud. At last h1rS- 1 Drummond's speech, of which not 1 word was audible, came to an end, and l a younger woman took her place. She l fared no better, and the police, res.liz- 1 ing the danger the women were ins 1 hn fo meeting. A large force of police,
 mounted and afoot, drew in about thS ] suffragette wagon, and under this es- cort the women were led out of tho | park, followed by jeerfng crowd which continued to pelt them with i missiles through the lines of conEtR- l bles.
 | Hard Struggle for Pol'e@L 1 The police endeavored to pilot the ] women to the tube station but the crowd brushed them aside and dragged 1 the women up and down the street Ia l the melee one woman had her eye bIaclkened. and all of them had, their
 clothes torn and disheveled. 1 The police after half an hours stRug- | gle got the upper hand and succeeded 1 in getting the badly mauied women ! into the tube from which all men were
 barred. until order had been restored. Cae of the spealeeTS SWSSAs. One of the speakers. Miss Rogers. whose clothes were bespatteRsd with eggs, collapsed as she was being es- oorted from the park and her clothes
 were on the point of being town om
 when the police succeeded in FeScunG the woman
 + was a regl1lAr stand-up fight be- tween the police and crowds, the for mer striking out right and left and endeavoring to arrest the rtngleaders- Others among the rioters, however
 would come to the aid of those Betzea by the police and forcibly take them out of their hands.
 Mrs Drurnond eIames Police. Mrs Drummond. speaking of the Hyde Park affair this evening, said E began by some boys shouting: Hello. here's Mother Drummcnd." She de- cIared that the crowd had shown ne hostility and that the trouble was cauS- ed by Sthe police interfering with free speech and, in their offlcdcus nAnneEs trying to escort the suffragettSs fr02 the park.
 Plot to KidnaP.
 The Referee, a Sunday Journal EAyE that the details of an elaborate Su6rA- gette plot to sarry off David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer' are only just beginning to leak out.
 "The whole thing" says the papSrb was well organized, but was gfv@n away by the over-zeal of one Of th@ appointed abductors. The retreat oH the honorable gentleman had been carefully arranged in an unfreQuentSd park in the country, and had naturaA Advantages which would enable quite small party to guard it.
 Subterranean Apartments.
 "A subterranean suite of apartments had been prepared for the captive and he would have had every attention. The plotters had even gone so far as to engage the services of a doctor dev0A- ed to the cause to be in attendance on the chancellor during his captivity.
 When the government learned of tha daring nature of the plot the number of detectives guarding MT. Lloyd George was largely increased"
 Sufrassttes Set Another Fire,
 Suffragettes are supposed to have set fire to a newly constructed houg@ at Cheam. Surrey, six n1tlee from Wal ton, where Chancellor Lloyd George'S house was damaged by a bomb re- gently.
 The Cheaxn residence which waH burned to the ground was not occu- pied Neither the owner nor thB agents are in any way connected with the suffragette movement or govern ment. Suftragette placards were left