Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-11
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Expecting that the hunger strike
conducted by Mrs. Pankhurst, the
noted suffragette leader, sentenced 10
three years Imprisonment for insti-
eating the dynamiting OF the country
home of Lloyd George, would result
in her release, eight thousand per-
sons gathered about Holloway prison
today, hoping to see her leave. The
police, however, made the gathering
dispense.
Mrs. Pankhurst has net eaten a
morsel of food since sentence was
| imposed.
The probability of being bedridden
for the rest of her life, from a shat
tered constitution, the result of in
stituting hunger strike in prison.
was faced with a smile in London to-
day by Miss Emerson, the American
suffragette. THE cause is worth any
sort of sacrifice" was the statement
attributed TO Miss Emerson.
Formal blockade of Antivari began
this morning. Austrian, British,
French and Italian warships partici
pating. -.. Il. s..
Hereafter no vessels of any sort
will be permitted to leave or ap-
proach the Mentenegrin coast until
such time as King Nicholas agrees to
suspend the attempts to take Scutari
by storm. .-. :.....
Austrian soldiers are holding up all
trains enroute to Montenegro and
the kingdom is practically isolated.
D.
After conference with President
Wilson today Representative Hard
wick of Georgia declared he would
submit to the house caucus an amend
ment, to the tariff bill to put sugar
on the free list in March, 1914, in
stead of three years from the day of
the passage of the bill, as now pro-
posed. :.-- : i
Mr.. Hardwiek predicted fight for
free sugar in the house and told. the
president he believed it to be diserim-
inatory to give sugar growers three
years time to adjust themselves
while other products: were immediate
ly to become free. . -.
Tomorrow is to be appointment
day. with President Wilson. With
-NcH0i dl Will
discuss the lost of postmasterships
and will probably send them to the
senate either Saturday or Monday.
A million dollars of the general ap-
preparation made by California TO-
wards the Panama Exposition fund
will be used by the exposition author
tiles for the erection of state build
ing. It had been expected that the
legislature would authorize an addi-
tional amount for the state building
and exhibit, but Governor Johnson
declares that the condition of the
treasury will not allow this.
D: -
Despite a restless and trying night,
the condition of Pope Plus practical
ly was unchanged today. His temper
ature was again normal but heart
action was feeble, causing the doc
tors much concern.
The physicians now believe the
pontiff has passed the crisis of his re-
lapse although the crisis of influence
and fever has not arrived. The pope
is in such weakened condition that
his sisters have been forbidden to-
talk to him. ~.
Il am determined to recover" the
pontiff said, in time to personally
celebrate the pentecostal mass at st.
Peters on May II in honor of Con-
stantine Year"
Uncle Sam was asked today to take
hand in the search for the twenty
immigrant girls who disappeared
from a Baltimore & Ohio train at
Newcastle, Pennsylvania, more than
three weeks ago. .....
A detachment of Chinese troops to-
day attacked a battalion of police at
tached to a British surveying party,
on the frontier of Burma. The hill
men, in considerable numbers. Joined
the Chinese. The British column re-
pulsed them but sustained a few cas-
ualtieS.
An international parade at the
opening of the Panama canal was
proposed today by Representative
Copley in a resolution to authorize
President Wilson to invite foreign ma