The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-06-05

fraeettes Of Great Britain has been In
II progress for slightly more than one year.
The record of its first twelve months SHOWS
ae1&A. that Mrs, Johns chose the name well On
SWNTs& the night of April g. 1918. this woman. one
N 4 R of the most aggressive of the leaders, SPEAK
II ing in Glasgow borrowed from the French
W. ~ revolution that appelation with which to
christen the new frenzy Of mitancy, come
To life that day She added that the mitancy OF tho
past would be the merest pin prcks compared to WHAT
will happen at all over the country
On the same day in London. oncers OF the Womens
Social and Political union turned the Boer for
phrase declared that what was to be done would
stagger humanity. Yet another leader announced mat
human life, we have resolved. will be respected no
longer"
Throughout the army the militants in short there
famed fresh fury that day.
The reason was that Mrs Pankhurst then
fenced to penal serv1tude three for melting
the destruction of the country house OF o,
Old Bailey Justice Sir Charles Lush pronounced
sentence then went from the court to begin their
reign OF terror. -.
The initial act OF the mitants the defacing that
afternoon Manchester art gallery Of hve paintings
BY Leighton and other artists The initial act OF
the authortes in preparation for the reign. the
of general warning by Scotland yard TO own.
tenants of property and the taking OF unusual
precautions police throughout the United King
dom.
since then according the published records not
passed without damage being done to person or
to property without danger or fear Or
being caused to some Of the public.
activities the iitants have ranged from throw
ing pepper Premier AsQuith and dead cat at Angus
tine Brre chief secretary for Ireland to burning the
Midland railway sheds at Bradford with loss OF $500.
900, and attempting to blow up part of the Bank OF
England They endangered hundreds Of lives they
have done direct property damage e sRs
;, The mitants in their campaigns have used hre.
bombs, mines, hatchets hammers. revolvers. pokers
knives bludgeons stones, tar, paint, riding switches,
horse whips. dog whips. umbrellas foul smelling cnem-
icas corrosive chemicals barbed wire entanglements
for police besides using az weapons their hsts nails
The militants have burned wholly partly country
mansions in charge of servants who escaped only by
being awakened by the flames: castles. including Ball.
knrain Alberuchile Lisburn: unoccupied country
houses some owned by peers and members OF parlia-
ment: railway stations. railway Sheds railway cars,
churches factories timber yards hayricks exhibition
buildings conservatores race track grandstands cricket
Erandstands football grandstands. furniture, organs
tapestries. paintings boat houses racing shells Car
negie library. town corporation structures coese ane
school buildings tincluding Cambridge laboratory and
empty hospital.
They have attempted to burn the Royal academy
buildings at school, aeroplane sheds of the army
flying corps. and historic church. They have plotted
according to the Daily Mirror to burn London by stimuli
taneousy firing all the big timber yards and cutting the
telephone and telegraph wires surrounding
They have with bombs DESTROYED OF damaged shops
railway stations railway churches country houses
conservatories Royal observatory at Edinburgh the
LIVERPOOL cotton exchange and Trade hall at Man
chester. They have destroyed with bomb an empty
car attached train endangerng passengers
in other cars. they charged with having tried to
wreck express by obstructng the track
They have placed bombs which failed to work or were
found exploding In streets shops tube stations
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Pauls cathedral and the football pavilion at Cambridge
They sent bombs through the mails addressed to
REGINALD McKenna home secretary. and other prominent
men, the bombs badly njuring the hand of mail
soter they exploded mines in attempts to blow up
Holloway prison. and to breach canal to cause food
they plotted blow houses of members of
Lament; they have scattered dummy bombs broadcast
both advertise their movement and to errorize At
one time the London papers declared that every day
brings bomb and instructions on the art Of handling
unexploded bombs safely were printed daily.
They have pummeled Premier Asquith. dog whipped
Lord Weardale, horsewhpped Holloway prison physi-
Clans hurled apples at Justice Lord Salvesen.
thrown hammers at Judge in Old Bailey. scattered