The Washington times., 1917-01-31
4 HELD IN PLOT TO
KILL GEORGE
Conspiracy to Poison British
Premier and Two War Coun-
ciIorS Barred.
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man OF the hour" should have been
the object OF such a plot.
The fact that the chief inspector
of Scotland Yard should have assumed
personal charge OF the case was re-
garded as evidence of the gravity
with which 1t was regarded.
No Information Given.
Although existence of the plot was
discovered Saturday, no information
concerninE-it became known to the
public until the arrests had been
made.
After formal evidence of the plot
had been outlined by the crown prose-
cutor. the four prisoners were re-
manded until Saturday.
Only Formal Statement.
The only evidence which the crown
gave against the defendants was
formal statement of the charges on
which they had been taken into Gus
tody.
/ tits understood that the Crown
has thirty witnesses to support the
charge of conspiracy to murder"
Mrs. Mason was arrested at South
ampton. The other three alleged
conspirators were taken in custody at
Derby.
The cable dispatch telling of the
police court hearing of the four al
legged conspirators is the first init
attempt on the premier's life.
Whether dissatisfaction with war
or suffrage issues prompted the al
legged plot, was not made apparent
by the first dispatches passed by the
hcensor. LIoyd-George has been q
friend of the suffrage movement.
Comes with Concession.
News of the attempt comes,
strangely enough, at the same time
that the committee on electoral re-
form in England issues its formal
recommendations for extension of the
franchise in some elections to all
British women more than thirty or
| thirty-five years of age. This an
nouncement was made in London last
night. 1t had long been expected
such a step would be taken.
The recommendations, however,
were entirely unsatisfactory TO the
suffrage parties in England, accord
ing to a statement issued by Miss
Sylvania Pankhurst. She held a ma
jority of women wage earners were
between twenty-five and thirty years
of age and it would be unfair to ex-
clude them.
OF late the militant suffragettes
have turned their attention to vigor-
Gus agitation against peace meetings
and alleged office-holders in England
having a slight sympathy for the Ger
mans.
Grey and HaIdnne Targets.
Viscount Grey. former foreign Sec
rotary, and Viscount Haldane have
been particularly the only objects of
their attack, because of the supposed
Germanic leanings of these statemen.
which, IL is charged, leads them to
deal leniently with prosecution of the
war.
Lloyd-George, because of his deter
mination to wage the war unrelent-
ingly, has from the first had the sup
port of this class OF sufrragettes.
&C. O.'s"-or conscientious objec-
tors" against the war-have frequent
ly been encountered in application Of
the military CONSUMPTION law.
Most Are Quakers.
Most OF them are Quakers, or else
they swear to a belief in the wrong,
Of killing fellow-creatures approach
ing the Quaker belief.
The combination of supposed suf-
fragettes and a conscientious objec-
tor in b plot against Lloyd-George Is
therefore a bizarre one totally mex
plicable on any grounds of general
belief Of the apparent political and
economic beliefs of the plotters.