The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-16

mer Serbian Secretar
Looking a. much as ever like a Wat
teau shepherdess. with lines OF expert
ence In her face M dressed In modern
clothes. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. Inc
British suffrage leader. arrived here un-
expectedly OH the steamship ~. Paul
Yesterday. And no sooner la the boat
touched the wharf than history repeated
itself. As on her visit a little more
thai two years ~ Mrs. P~ankhnrs'
was sent to Ellis Island. But instead
OF being kept there several days. as be-
fore. she spent only three hours IN the
custody of the immigration authorities
She iunched with Commissioner FRED
erick Howe. appeared before the Board
Of Special Inquiry and was released u"
naro,e. with the assistance OF Assistant
Secretary OF Labor Louis r. Post, VINO
Glanced 10 be on the island. Five hours
after the st. Paul locked abs was tap
ming along on her little French heels 10
the commissioners steam yacht' on
which he escorted her 10 Manhattan
v,,b Mrs. Pankhurs; were Cheddomit
Niyatoyich. Serbian Minister 10 ENG
land. and Weislav NJ. Petrovitch. an at
,ache of the Serbian Legation In Lon
don II was at NJ M~iyatovichs request
tina, .be suffrage leader. who since the
war began has dropped sunbige worn
and spent her time urging men 10 recruit
and esta blishing relief agencies. aoro"n-
panied him 10 America to help M, III
an appeal for heip Ior Se,''"
The two Serbians went 10 Ellis 's'a".
60 aid Mrs. P%ankhurst II necessary ana
~ did Miss lean Wickham, her sec
ro,.,y nho came with her from Eng
land.
detention .PureIy Tcchnere'.'
Commissioner Howe said the oe'eh''oh
was purely technical. @,
.'The inspector who boarded tine ~.
Paul. remembering that In 1913 Mrs
pa was admitted only nnh' 'he
end of her lecture tour. thousht y hee"S
cary TO 20 through the formaIty, ne
said "I didn't know .-rs.
ua. In America ill she landed on VI"
ISLAND communicated with commas
sioner-General OF immigration 'a"''ne"'
in Washington by long instance u"
nhone and / have no doubt tha' III q
coup,e OF days she will he adm'''eu
unreserNedIy' ,u, uh,ch
THE militant suffrage campaign "h'cn'
In the opinion of the immisrauoh au,,
,horitles In 1918 constituted a ""o'"'
,urpitude" which JUSTIFIED them III "a,
Guiding her from the United states, VIII
probably never have 10 De 'e~u'"e"' ~
cording to Mrs. Pankhurst'
T. -, lnr TntlRn AT the ttoltl tNi
,a,tan where she went after coming
,ror Ellis Island. Mrs. Pankhurst told
NJ the seryices OF the British women
for Their Government, of their WORK IN
tho uunition factories and on the tram
cars and I'm other places filled ny men
I'm England before the war ms s"e
said. had through; women ana men
c,ose together, had done more TO sweep
away prejudices than all the years OF
militant suffrage had done.
But we dom think OF sunrase III
England now" she said. u don 'alN
Of IL. Sometimes men introduce the sun
ject with me, but mostly our minus are
wrapped UP in the one thought-tne Sue
cess Of the Allies IN TINS war
Twill they VIM" Mrs. Pankhurst was
asked.
she hesitated a. moment. They must
win" she said at last. The defeat or
means the saving of these
small countries. which are overriddcn
and tortured. But | don't want To talk
~polltics. am in America to ask help
for Serbia. where the armies or Ger
many. Austria and Bulgaria. bearing
down from all sides, have driven the
people from their homes. out to die OF
want. The immediate desire OF NJ. MI
yatoyich and myself Is Ia beg food
clothing, money to rescue the hcipieHS
Serhians from n suffering which is
greater even than that Belgium endured
ant hooking at the matter In its broader
asnect. how terrible it Is that this little
country. this people Of really high ideals
and true national life. should lie swept
ont of existence by Germanys miiitafE
power. The Allies were slow in getting
there, hut | believe they VIII YET save
the Balkan situation. In the meantime
we hone the great. generous country "I
America will do something to succ"r
them in their need
First Lectures Here.
No details have been arranged as TO
the lect ures Mrs. P%ankhurst aud NJ
MIyatovlch will deliver On Serbia, but
the frst two or three will he IN New
York. NJ. M~iyatovich. a picturesque,
black eyed old man. said that the money
given would be sent direct Ia the Ser
bIan Consul In London, who would send
il to the Serbian Government. 1t was
true, he said. that the Serbian Gov
rnmen was not always easy to locate,
when last ] heard 1t was In Sou
tart, in Albania" he said, Not more
than 1900. 900 OF the 100000 OF Ser
plans have been allowed TO remain in
their homes. They have been driven
20 Montenegro, to Albania. which coun
tries are themselves poor, To nnd
these starving people will not always DO
easy and to get food to the Balkans
may be difficult, but the United States
has great moral power, which Germany
respects, and n the United States will
exert his power the starving people in
the Balkans may he saved"