New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-03
London Magistrate Refuses
to Punish Youths Who
Attack Them.
TRIED TO THROW
WOMEN INTO POND
Two Suffragettes Chain Selves TO
Gates Of Buckingham Palace
and Yell Denunciations.
by Cabl, % Th. rrlbun..


London. June The long succession Of
wanton and futile sunragette outrages
eliminating I'm the sacrilegous dcstruc-
ton OF Wargrave Church, reported yes
torday and passing for the most part
without any punishment at all. has at
last aroused public ind gnation. On all
hands are signs OF eXaspcration I'm one
London police court tho magistrate YES
tcrday refused TO punish three young men
who we're charged with attempting to
throw some sufragettos into the pond on
Strcatham common.
THE Daily Express publishing photo
graphs OF some scufles with the police
last week said edtorlalIy:
These photographs are disgusting and
appalling. These kicking. biting and dis
heyelled manads fighting with the police
have the outward form Of womanhood.
They have lost the heart and sold the soul
OF their sex. They must be mad. On no
other hypothesis is their conduct COM
prehensible. No sane person could sup
pose that the vote is to be gained by an
tsgonlzing every person in whom hys-
terra has not banished reason, that the
position Of woman in the state is 10 be
advanced by degrading tho human con-
ception Of wonanhood But. mad or sane.
these furieS are imperillinc the safety OF
woman. They have brought us TO the
verge Of the sex war which they pro-
claimed. In an age OF crumbling ideals
and battered conventions they have laid
their hatchets to tho pedestal on which
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manifest in the decay OF courtesy and
the loss of pity for the weaker vessel.
If they are neither deported nor shut up
in asylums for the insane the whole basis
OF civilized society will be overturned by
their crime"
London June 1.-Two young militant
suffragettes disturbed the customary dec
orous tranquility Of Buckingham Pal
ace this afternoon by claiming them
selves to the rails of the main gates.
They then waved flags of the colors of
the Women's Social and Political Union
and shouted loud denunciations OF the
"torturers Of women" Neither King
George nor queen Mary was in the pal
ace AT the time.
The authorities OF the Royal Exchange
to-day ordered the exclusion Of women
from the building, as they fear damage
may be done by suffragettes 10 the valu-
able frescoes.
The charge that imprisoned militant
suffragettes are drugged in order that
they may be forcibly fed was made to-day
at a meeting of the Womens Social and
Political Union by Mrs. Mildred Ella
Mansen. one Of the organizers Of tho mill
tant society, who presided. Mrs. Mansel
specified the cases OF Miss Grace Roe and
Mss Gladys Roberts, who, she said, were
being forcibly fed twice and thrice daily,
respectively She added:
This terrible drugging occurs every
time they are fed and they seem unable
70 battle against the drowsiness which
overcomcs them II is the most criminal
thing tho government has yet done
against women"
Mrs Mansell referred TO we'll known so
cic,v women who received Cabinet min
isters as their guests. and warned them
that IL they continued TO harbor the min
listers they would have TO pay the conse-
quences. She continued:
we shall ask how they can so far
misbehave themselves and be such traitors
10 their sex"
Criccieth. Wales June Militant suf-
fragettes to-day visited In force the con-
stituency Of David Lloyd George. while
the Chancellor Of the EXchequer was adj
dressing an open air meeting. The wom-
en- first tried 10 create a panic among
the audience, but were summarily eJected'
They then paraded the main street. shat
tering with hammers many windows OF
stores and residences on their way.
Eventually they encountered the poles
who arrested half dozen Of them.
Leicester, England, Juno Am attempt
bv a suffragette larson sdud" 70 burn
mansion, near Market Marlborough, to-
day. was frustrated by the timely dis
covery Of fire under a staircase on which
inhammablc materials had been thrown.