I MILITANTS GO I UPON WARPATH IN HEAVY RAIN Arrest of Sylvia Pankhurst Hj for Sixth Time Under "Cat and Mouse" Act Precipi-tates Precipi-tates Conflict. I LONDON. March Militant, snffra-gottcs snffra-gottcs ncnin ennajied in battle with the police today on Choir favorilo field, Trafalgar square, and in a pouring rain. The arrest of Sylvia Pankhurst for the sixth timo under the "eat and motieo' act, precipitated tho conflict. Iu addi tion to Miss Pankhurst sovon women and three men were arrested. Anion! those arrested was Mrs. Zche Emerson of .Jackson, Mich. Miss Emerson Emer-son has been arrested several times for participation in finffraKUttc demonstra Uons, and recently there were minors that stepB were boine taken by the British jjovernmenl to deport her as an undesirablo alieu. Jlcplyiiu: February "6 to a question as to whether this report re-port was true, Kogiiiald McKenna, the liome secretary, asserted no such steps were being taken. He added, however: "If Misa Emerson again commits an offense bringing her within the provisions provi-sions of the. aliens art the question of applying to tho court for a recommendation recommen-dation for her expulsion will be considered." con-sidered." Sylvia Is Arrested. Thin afternoon several women and men had marched in procession to the pgunrc to attend a nicotine of tho Men's Federation for Woman Suffrage. Sylvia Pankhurst, who for tomo weeks had been hiding from the police, arrived ar-rived in tho square iu a taxicab to deliver de-liver a speech, but dotcctivos surrounded surround-ed the cab and started it for llolloway lnil before the militants realized what was happening. When it was discovered that Miss Pankhumt had been abducted, the chairwoman of the mooting, Miss Patterson, Pat-terson, who later was among those arrested, ar-rested, shouted to her supporters from the base of tho Nelson column, "Follow "Fol-low the flag anil see if wo can't find something to do." The militants then surged toward the government buildings in Whitehall with the suliragc bannor borno aloft, but a co'don of mounted police barred their way. Some of the women assailed tin; police with short sticks, but tho marchers march-ers were soon dispersed. Writes to King. Having received a refusal of an audience audi-ence of King George in which it was proposed that a deputation from the Woman 's .Social and Political union should lay before him their claim for the vote "and their complaint, of "mo-daeval "mo-daeval and barbarous methods of torture tor-ture whereby your majesty's ministers arc seeking to' ropnwt tho woman's revolt re-volt against their deprivation of citizens' citi-zens' rights," Mro. - Emmelino Pankhurst, Pank-hurst, the militant suirrngetto leader, has addressed another loiter to the monarch. In this letter she declares her intention to lead a delegation to Buckingham palace to .see the Icing. In replv to Mrs. Pankhurst'? first letter let-ter to King George requesting an aud -once, the home office wrote her as follows: fol-lows: , , , . , "Tho secretary of state haa laid vour petition bcrorc tho king, but he reports that ho has not been able to advise his majesty to. comply with the prayer contained in it." Will Claim Audience. J n her last letctr to the king, Mrs. Pankhurst said; "Wo utterly deny tho constitutional right of millionaires who have not been elected by women and arc not roapon-oible roapon-oible to "them, to stand between our-solves our-solves and tho throne to prevent us having .in audience of your majesty. I have the honor, therefore, to inform you respectfully that in puruuaiico of bur undoubted constitutional right to petition the sovereign in person, I and other representatives of the Woman's Social and Political union will present ourselves at Buckingham palace for the purpose of claiming an audience." Women threw circulars and attempted attempt-ed to speak in two theaters filled with fashionable audiences last night, but ushers dragged them out. The militant suffragettes, who for tho past acvcral days have been sitting on ihc doorstops of SirEdward Carson's homo, awaitinj; an interview with the Ulster loade:, continued their vigil today. Agitation in Austria. ' , VIENNA. Maroli 8. Hundreds of wont-en's wont-en's mass niectltma in favor of woman suffrage wcro held today throusliout Austria. At all of them rcsolutloim were adopted declaring that It was tho general gen-eral demand of Austrian women for the vote In parliamentary and local oloctloiiH. The mass meeting were organized by the Socialist party.