The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-03
SUPFRAGETTE CALLS
SOVEREIGN A PUPPET
Another Applies Contemptuous
Name to King at Meeting
Of Militants.
CHARGES DRUGGING IN JAIL
Mrs. Mansell Says This Method
Is Used TO Permit FOrci-
bic Feeding.
CHARGES DRUGGING IN JAIL
Specidf cable Despatch 10 THE srS.


LONDON. June 2-The militant sufrrs-
the King to-day and called him names.
one Of which the newspapers do not print.
This occurred al a m citing Of the womens
Social and Political Union.
The speakers were cheered when they
made condemnatory references to the King
for not receiving Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
hurst at buckingham Palace and one OF
the women raised loud laughter by apply
ing n contemptuous appellation to the
King. Another called him a puppet in the
hands OF a corrupt Government.
Another launched a terrible threat by
declaring that In future she will stick her
stamps on all letters upside down and
give him the chance OF standing on his
head as he cannot stand on his own feet"
The meaning of this is that there Is a SUI
perstitious idea among some English
women that invertlng postage stamp
constitutes an insult to the King.
The suffragettes, through one OF their
leaders. made the charge in public to-day
that their fellow wild women now In
Jail are being drugged in order to permit
of forcibe feeding
The militants also made their usual
demonstrations during the day. Two OF
them chained themselves TO the gates Of
buckingham Palace and shrieked like
manlacs till they were removed and others
smashed things at Criccieth, Wales, while
their old enemy. David Lloyd George,
was making an address to his constituen, g..
\ fire In an Old mansion Is supposed TO
have been started by the arson squad
OF the suffragetes.
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of the organizers of the Women's Social
and Political Union. who made the charge
in Begard 10 druggng. At a meeting OF
that organization Mrs. Mansell. who pre-
sided, specified the cases of Miss Grace
Roe and Miss Gladys Roberts, now In
pail, who, she declared, arc forciby fed
two or three times q day. She added:
This terrible drugging occurs every
time they are fed and they seem unable to
battle against the drowsiness that over
comes them. II Ia the most criminal thing
the Government has yet done against
tho women"
Mrs Mansell then paid her respects TO
society women who frequently have mem
beers OF the Cabinet as their guests. She
warned them that II they continued this
practice they will have to pay the penalty
of such action. adding.
1--WE shall follow them TO remind them
OF their duty and shall call upon them to
do their duty. We shall ask how they
can so far misbehave themselves and be
traitors to their sex"
A commotion was caused at the main
gates OF buckingham Palace to-day BY
two militant suffragettes who chained
themselves to the rails of the gates, waved
flags Of the Women's Social and Political
Union and shrieked their opinions con
corning those whom they called the tor
turers OF women" Later the womer
learned with chagrin that King George
and Queen Mary were not In the palace
The police removed tho chains and ar
rested the women.
As David Lloyd George, Chancellor oi
the Exchequer. was speaking at an oper
air meeting of his constituents at Criccieth
Wales. to-day suffragettes began to max,
disturbance by screaming. They were
forcibiy elected. y few minutes late
they organized a parade along the mail
streets Most of the women mad hammers
with which they shattered windows N
stores and residences. The police rounded
up half dozen militant ones.
A fre. was discovered to-day unde
n stairway In mansion near Marke
Marlborough. in Leicester. The fndinl
OF suffragist pamphlets and circulars LEI
10 the belief that the suffragette arsoi
squad had been at work The blaze wa
quickly extinguished.
An order was issued to-day excluding
women from the Royal Exchange. 1t wa
understood the measure was adopted b.
the authorities OF the exchange to proven
suffragettes from doing damage to fires
Goes I'm the building.