The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-03-17
Militant Speakers in Hyde
Park Are Pelted With
Clods and Other Missiles
and Struck in Face Until
Rescued by the Police
DRAGGED UP AND
b DOWN THE STREET
Constables, Who Are Out
numbered 100 to 1, Are
Brushed Aside and the
Women Torn From Them
by the Angry Crowds

LONDON. March 1s.-The sufrra-
gettes. who again attempted to hold a
Sunday afternoon meeting In Hyde
park today were mobbed by a crowd
of 10000 persons They were pelted
with c1ods, oranges and other missiles
and when the police were escorting
them from the scene the rioters tore
off the hats and cloaks of the women
and even struck some OF them in the
face
The trouble began when General
Mrs. Flora Drummond mounted a
wagon and started to speak to the
great assemblage, which was largely
made up of youths. who had armed
themselves with ammunition of various
descriptions or with trumpets, mouth
organs and bells. Her appearance at
the front of the platform was the signal
for an outburst of deafening noise and
bombardment of missiles. She had
hardly uttered q word when a clod of
turf struck her on the mouth.
SMILES AT ToRMENToRs
Mrs. Drummond maintained her good
nature, smiled at her tormentors and
continued her speech amid veritable
tornado of abuse, catcalls, ragtime
choruses and cries of Go home to your
children"
For half an hour the crowds shouted.
%Ta eff
mander in chief. whose clothes soon
were q mass OF mud. At last Mrs.
Drummonds speech, of which not
word was audible, came to an end
and younger woman took her place
She fared no better, and the police.
realizing the danger the women were
in, called upon the chairman to close
the meeting.
A large force of police. mounted and
sfoot, drew in about the suffragette
wagon, and under this escort the
women were led out of the park, fol-
lowed by a jeering crowd which con-
tinued to peit them with missiles over
the heads and through the lines of
cohstables.
The police endeavored to pilot the
women to the tube station, but the
crowd brushed them aside and dragged
the women up and down the street. In
the melee one womans eye was black
ened and the clothes of all were torn
and disheveled.
The police, after half an hours strug-
eIo he Il
in getting the badly mauIed women
into the tube, from which all men were
barred until order had been restored
The attack on the suffragettes was
preconceived long before their wagon
entered the park. Hundreds of boys
had assembled ready for mischief, and
they caused a scene when the women
arrived such as is seldom witnessed in
London park, where freedom of
every propa ganda.
The disorder continued despite the
efforts OF police. AS soon as the wagon
eReared the police surrounded II to
protect the suffragettes. But the
crowd outnumbered them a hundred to
one and 1T was impossible to prevent
n1en from throwing their missiles at
the harassed women.
CHANCELLOR ALMOST KIDNAPPED
The Referee. a Sunday journal de-
voted to sport and the drama, says the
details of an elaborate suffragette plot
to carry off David Lloyd George, chan
cellor of the exchequer, are just begin
ming to leak out
The whole thing" says the Referee,
was well organized, but was given
away by the overzealousness of one of
the appointed abductors. The retreat
of the honorable gentleman had been
carefully arranged in an unfrequented
park In the country and had natural
advantages which would enable quite
a small party to guard it.
"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
devoted to the cause to be IN attend
ance on the chancellor during his cap
tivity.
when the government learned of
the daring nature of the plot the num-
ber of detectives guarding Mr.. Lloyd
George was largely increased.
SING ooh, YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL
one of the speakers. Miss Rogers.
collapsed as she was being escorted
Nom the park and her clothes were
on. the point OF being torn from her
az. ,,oifea SlIcceeded i'm rescring
her.
IT was a regular stand up fight be-
tween the police and the crowds. the
former striking out right and left and
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