Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-02-15
SUfFS ARE GETTING
READY FOR OUTBURST
DEFENDERS or the "ChT AND
MOUSE ACT JUBu.NNT OVER
WONDERFUL RESULTS.
ONLY Two SUFFS IN JAIL
If the Women Keep Their Promise,
stormy and Troublesome Year Is
in Store for England.

LONDON, Feb. l4.--NeNt to the
home rule question, the most absorb
ing problem faced by the present ses-
sion Of parliament concerns the atti-
tude of the militant sufragettcs. Sup
porters Of the government declare
that recent inactivity OF the suffra-
gettes indicates that the "cat and
mouse act has accomplished far
more than it's most sanguinary de-
tenders ever expected and that there
is little to fear this year. on the
other hand the militants declare that
the prevailing quiet is only a lull be-
fore the storm, and that their appar-
ent submission to the hated act was
deliberately planned TO give the
mice an opportunity 10 recoup their
forces for a campaign which viii
make all their former battles with
the government seem comparatively
insignificant.
According to figures supplied by
the home office, only forty-eight suf-
fragottes have been imprisoned IN
England and Wales since the "Cat
and mouse" act was passed nine
monthes ago, as compared with 420
sufiragette prisoners during 1912.
At present writing Only two suffra-
settes remain in prison. SIX have
completed their sentences or paid their
fines, two have been discharged upon
giving pledges Of good behavior, and
thirty-seVen fed while temporarily re-
Ia f,, 10 g., 4,
ishment. The odd one is Sylvia Pank-
hurst, who was recently released and
who has been recovering from the oi-
fects Of her latest hunger strike.
If threats which the militants have
made are carried out, however tho
year viii 0utrank any other for trou-
hlesome times. The effort TO reach
the king at Buckingham palace, an
nounced as part Of the program pro-
posed at the first meeting of the
Womens Social and Political union
this year, is only one Of the ways in
which the women intend TO keep their
cause before the public. The militants
claim that their treasury is overflow
ing and that the ranks, depleted for
a time by illness and prison bars, are
again full of fighters, ready for a long
campaign. Never since the Womans
Social and political Union occupied its
big building on Kingsway has the
place been az quiet as during the past
few months, but it is said that much
Of the work Of preparation for this
years campaign has been going on at
the homes Of members or at other
places so that Scotland Yard will have
some difficulty in repeating its famous
raid upon the women's headquarters.
With the laying down OF the bat
tleships Royal Sovereign and Royal
oak at Portsmouth and Davenport, |
a new departure was made by the
British admiralty. Those two ships, /
with three others to be laid down at
private yards this year, will be con
smaller and slower than
their predecessors, and they Will also
be coal burners, carrying oil only as
fuel This means a saving,
both in the cost of construction and
operation, but it is believed that the |
admiralty in making the decision, was
guided more by the opinion that bat
tleships have grown beyond the most !
size, than they were by
II is believed that the new ships !
viii have a displacement Of about &c.
600 tons, thus being smaller than any
under construction, except !
these Of France, which are about the |
same size. 1t would seem that France !
and England had an understanding in |
the matter, as all other countries are |
ships Of 10000 tons and up
ward.
The new small vessels will have a
speed of q knots, and they will |
mount eight, If not ten. 15-inch guns. |
The secondary armament will consist !
Of 6-inch guns behind armor.
Il will be imagined during the |
present month that Great Britain is at |
war and in danger of having supplies |
cut off. All the officers and blue
jackets of the home fleets will picture |
the great trade route of the North .
Atlantic ocean in jeopardy and all Of /
The larger warshps VIII steam to sea |
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