Show SISTERHOOD OF SUFFRAGETTES SMITES Militant Members Attempt to Present Petition to Pre Premier Premier Premier Petton mier Asquith BATTLE WITH THE POLICE POLICEWOMEN POLICEWOMEN WOMEN ROUGHLY HANDLED AND MANY OF THEM ARRESTED London London Feb IS The suffragettes suffragette sUffragette failed today toay In their attempt to present to Pre Pro Premier Premier mier Asquith the resolution adopted a at yesterdays mooting meeting of the omos Free Freedom Frt Freedom dom league Iea uE declaring for or a continuation of o the militant propaganda for suffrage The police had completely blocked all al entrances to Downing street and twenty of tho the more militant suffragettes who tried to break brak through the lines lints were re ar arrested arrested arrested rested charged with wih Interfering with Ith the police For a time there ther was a scene of or I great disorder women time and again gin throwing themselves valiantly against the double line lne of ot police pOle only to be b forced back or if I they were unusually persistent persistent to be handed over to constables constable who marched them off to the police station staton amid cheers ch rs hoots and and hisses from the throng The Tho women who were taken into custody were later arraigned in a a police court court They Tey refused to pay the fines im ira imposed Imposed posed and all al were sent to prison for terms varying from a fortnight ht to a month None of the Leaders Arrested None of the women omen prominent in the th suffragist movement is among those thoe ar arrested arrested rested today toda I Mrs Airs Ir and Miss and ad the other leaders leader who were ere only recently released from jail jai are arc holding holing themselves in resene reserve re reserve serve sene and th woman oman taken into custody custo today to are mostly mst from Glasgow Man Ian Manchester Manchester chester Birmingham and elsewhere in the provinces Although the raid on Downing street lasted not more mor mor than ten minutes minute it pro provided pr provided vided tho tim watching crowd ero with Ith consider considerable considerable considerable able excitement The projected attempt to deliver delver the resolutions to Premier As Asquith Asquith had been advertised before hand and the police polee had consequently placed the the street on which the residences of or the state minister are ar located In a state of ot siege Officers mounted and on foot ot were ere everywhere evel here but in spite Of 6 the hopeless hopelessness ness noes of a successful outcome the deter determined determIned determined mined women charged charge the lines ln of stal stalwart stalwart wart vart constables constable again and again without hesitation Finally Finaly the policemen became beame exasperated at the persistence of the struggling women and they the were none to tender in the way they the handled their as assailants assailants Hats furs urs and blouses came away awa In the scrimmage Scotch Women Used Fists Fist Several Seral big Scotch women were ob observed served ene actively using their fists on the police but the unequal battle could not last long and the women who had not fallen talen into the te hands hads of the constables eventually retreated to Caxton hell hall hal The suffragettes promise that there shall be beno beno beno no cessation of activity They 11 appeared In large numbers at the tuberculosis exhibition exhibition exhibition opened by Earl this af afternoon a and tit the earl carl erl was unable to speak until half hal a dozen of them therit had ha been ejected The Te suffragettes suffragette met again this afternoon in Caxton hell hall hal Carrie Nation Naton was among those present Mrs frs Despard made a a report on progress She said ald the tile suffragettes were pr going to continue to spread their protests as al the only means of ot securing their demands Plans for the future were ere being formulated and these would bo ho thoroughly democratic in char har character acter actor The present movement was S critical critical rIt cal ami and every one men and women must ever an do their utmost as the interests of oC mon men monand and the Interests of women omen could not be separated In conclusion Mrs r Despard said she did not know how long it would take tho the government to understand that the women meant what they said aid Five hundred of them had been n Imprisoned al already alread already ready read she declared and they h would ron con continue on to be bo Imprisoned until they were crp given what they th wanted |