The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-11
FAILS IN EFFORT
TO SEE ASQU|TA
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst Arrested
While Being Escorted by Pro-
cession to Parliament.
POLICE DISPERSE CROWD
Openly Expressed Hostility of
Populace Damping Ardor
of Administration.

London, Juno 1o.-Miss Sylvia Pank-
Wcstni nstcr tonight to intcrvie W
Premier Asqui:h. Tho proposed visit
was arranged several days ago by Miss
Pankhurst and other militant leaders,
and II was decided that she should DO
carried shoulder high in the process
enough to bear the stra!n OF the
Journey.
Before the procession had gone a
mile. Miss Pankhurst was arrested for
tho eighth time since she was sem
fenced 10 SIX months Imprisonment I
for using melting language In Hyde
Park. She was conveyed TO Holloway
Ja.. The procession struggled on
without leader before IT was dis
persed by the police.
Under leadership OF George Lang
bury. former Socialist member Of tho
House Of Comm ons. q deputat!on Of
women proceeded TO Parliament.
where they were received by p. H.
lllingworth. the chief Liberal whip.
after having been rebuffcd IN attempts 9
10 see the Premier.
The demonstration was organized
for dramatic effect. a crowd OF TO-
00o people gathered at 8 o'clock where
two professions were 10 Join. Miss
Pankhurst addressed the crowd from
an upper window, saying Il might he
tho last time she would have such Il
privilege.
but 81 sacrinccd my life in this
cause she said. 1T will not have been
In vain, IL YOU will carry on the Tight
in the same spirit"
MOUNTED AND FOOT POLICE
LAY PLANS CAREFULLY
Tho procession then formed. Head
Cd by Rev Mr.. Wills. Miss pankhurst
was borne on litter. The procession
started uuder escort Of mounted and
foo. police. Tho crowds grew STEADILY.
but tn" police had laid their plans
carefully, and when the procession
compelled il 10 divide. a sharp com
nand rang out.
The street vas quickly cordoncd hy
police. s,nd before her supporters were
aware what had happened Sylvia
pankhurst was under arrest. and was
being carried II Jail In a taxicab.
The women reformed their ranks.
bu; made slow progress. Students at
tempted TO interfere with them and
create disturbances. hut were foiled by
the police. who poured in in such mum
bers all along the route that they We're
as numerous as those In the process
sion.
There was little enthusiasm among
tho marchcrs. and the openly expressed
hostility OF the populacc danpcned the
9rdor Of the onstratior. so that bv
The time IL reached the Strand the
police had little diiiiculty in dispers-
ing 1t.
Mr Lansbury's depu,ation went ~
Parliament by railway, and. after a
vain attempt to see Mr.. Asqulth, made
protest 10 Mr.. I!Iingworth Miss
Fankhurst was the only militant
taken into custody.
ELL siNE Mrs. PANrHURST
AGAIN EVADES OFFICERS
The elusive Mrs. E.mmclinc panbhurst.
the militant leader. again succeeded last
night in evadinC thu police. who were
closely watching the house in Grosve-
nor Square from which she had been
recently conducting the campaign
against the peace OF members OF the
royal family at buckingham Palace
and other places. Her plan of escape
is said by the police 10 have been
'clevcrly conceived" although the de-
tails Were not made public to-day. The
ingenuity oc the women and their abil-
ity to circumvent the trained brains of
Scotland Yard whenever circumstances
dcina nd real contest of wits are Civ.
ing cause for keen anxiety at policr
headquarters
The raid on the officers of the Wo.
mems Social ana Political Union. like
that carly in May, did not produce tht
results expected by the police. The
documents seized revealed very few
names Of public interest. Chief In.
spcct"r James McBricn said to-day thai
the published report Of the disclosur,
during the raid that members of the
Royal Family, including the Prince OF
Wales. had contributed to the funds o
the militant suffragcttcs was ground
less
RESOLUTION STRONGLY
CONDEMNS MILITIA NTCl
resolution strongly condemnint
militantcy and demanding urgent ac
tion by the government to stop tn.
reign Of anarchy was adopted to-da,
hy large majority Of the conferenc,
of the Women's Liberal Federation now
in session in London.
Lady Carlisle, the president. In NOV
ing the resolution spoke of the ter
riblc scourge of violent methods whicl
came right across their own constitu
:ional methods, and hindered the wo
man suffrage movement" She added
''Thc disastrous example OF uncheck
cd violence of these criminal wreck
Irs is iniuring the moral fibre of
considerable number of men and wo
men in this country"
Lady Carlisle denounced as Spurious
scntimcntality and n travcsty OF chlv
airy" the theory that women shoul,
not be made to suffer the same penal
ties meted out to men under the law
Her remarks were received with cheers
DESTROYER OF PORTRAIT
COMNIIrTED FOR Trial
Iii iItIn iIlSr b a In Inn LIZ.