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Show WOMEN RAID LONDON SHOPS infuriated Suffragettes Also Attack Home of Premier Asqulth With Stone, Bolti and Decayed Veget-ables. Veget-ables. London, March 2. Amid scenes of a unprecedented disorder and panic, a 3P mob of Infuriated amazons swept flT through the fashlouable shopping dls- H tricU tonight wrecking the great glass windows, and dodging among fl the traffic to escape arrest and male-I male-I Ing their way steadily toward the homes of Premier Asqulth and his B associates In parliament, where they vented their fury lwth cries of "equal I suffrage," interspersed with flying I stones, bolU and vegetables. The I damage Is estimated at I 100,000. The demonstration was the most H violent in the annals of the suffrage campaign and beforo quiet was ro- fl stored a pistol hall crashed through fl a window In the colonial office and ? H over 148 frenzied women, among H them Mrs. I'ankhurst, have been lod- I fl gcd behind tho bars of tho local Jails. ! Raid a Surprise ' H The raid came Hko a bolt from a j fl clear Bky and followed a stormy J H mass meeting of tho militant suffra- I H gettcs, whpre tho dilatory tactics of I fl Premier Asqulth relative to tho suf- j H frage question in particular were at- I fl tacked with fiery speeches. fl Dy a preconcerted plan the women t fl left tho hall In twos and threes, talc- H Ing taxlcabs, and street cars to tho B chosen point of attack, tho fashion- j fl ablo west end, near tho Haymarkct, j H Oxford Circus and Dand street, j H where thoy stopped from their vc- i B hides and began a galling fire upon B the expenslvo show windows of the J fl shops. Windows wcro also broken j fl ' In PIcadllly, the Strand, Ilegont street J B nnd Trafalgar square. I B Officers Dazed j fl The police for a moment were at fl a loss to single out tho marauders H from tho crowd of fear-crazed shop- H pers, and the suffragettes, produs- K Ing hammors from their muffs, and Hjk opening largo bags which contained jflj weights darted hero and thero In , B the confusion, while tho roar of shat- ! fck4 tcred windows, mingled with tho "J&Jtf cries of tho women and tho curses of JM tbo shopkeepers, ndilcd to the gener- I IB al excitement. j flj Moro reserves wero called out. . fl Pollco charged the disheveled mass I B of humanity, clearing the streets, fl and arresting every unescorted fe- , fl male on which they found missiles ' H of destruction, while the shopkeepers fl hurrldly put up shutters and gratings fl to protect their windows from fur- ' H ther onslaught. I fl Many single acta of vindlctlvenasa H marked tho onslaughts. Mrs. Pank- H hurst kept hurllug stones even at- fl ter hor-arrest, and when she was or- fl ralgned at the police station, still B had three unused missies In her H handbag. fl Resisted Vigorously fl Other women drove up to the shops fl In cabs and when ushered up to B the entrance by uniformed employ- B ecs, suddenly drew hammers from H their muffs and attacked the wind- fl ows, endangering those who wore H passing. Those- about Premier As- B qulth's home, under tho personal fl direction of Mrs. Pankhurst, wore fl particularly aggressive, resisting tho fl pollco vigorously aH long as they had H a stono to burl. fl Most of tho woman wcro taken to fl tho Vino Btreot Jalt where they woro fl released on ball and promptly at- fl tended tho suffrage meeting in fl Qucon's hall whero Mrs.- Pankhurst, fl n'.tcr, her roleaso, brought down a fl burst of appiause, when she and her fl daughter, Crlstobel, urged tho women B to further rioting In Monday's domon- B strntion against the government's at- B tituUo toward thoir roform bill. |