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Show SUFFRAGETTES IN TURMOIL AND RIOT Hnndreds Make Fierce and Wild Demonstration Against Chancellor of Exchequer. FIGHT AGAINST THE MEN WHO ATTEMPT EJECTMENT Clothes of the Militant Agitators Agita-tors Torn From Their Backs During Struggle. LONDON, Dec. 5. The gulf between the suffragists and suffragettes, the latter lat-ter being tho term generally used to describe de-scribe the militant section of women agitators who believe in street riots and attacks on cabinet ministors as the quickest means of attaining tho ballot for their sex, was further widened this afternoon through a fierce demonstration demonstra-tion indulged in by tho suffragettes at Albert ball against David Lloyd-George, Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer. Tho chancellor was addressing a suffrage suf-frage meeting under the auspices of the Woman's Liberal association. He had hardly got beyond announcing that he was present -to make known the government's gov-ernment's intention regarding the, problem prob-lem of woman suffrage, when a great uproar broke out. Strident voices from all parts of the hall shrieked: "We want deeds, not words." Women Chained to Seats. The stewards of the hall, and there were thirty-five on hand to deal with the anticipated disturbance, at once moved down the aislo toward the women wom-en who had interrupted the sneaker, to eject th"em. Thoy found the women chained to their seats. Then thero began be-gan a confused struggle, but finally tho chains were cut and tho suffragettes expelled. But the numbers of the disorderly seemed to increase rather than diminish. dimin-ish. Some of the women were armed with whips, and they repelled vigorously vigorous-ly every aitempt to eject them. There were fierce tussles every few, moments in different parts of the hall, and every time Mr. Lloyd-George made an attempt at-tempt to speak his voice was drowned by mingled groans and cheers. Finally the chancellor, who for a quarter of an hour had been trying to cot in a word, sat down, and the organist tried to soothe the hysterical sisterhood by playing "What Can tho Matter Be?" but it was of no use and pandemonium continued to reign. Appear in Prison Garb. The uproar was at its height when a dozon suffragettes who recently had been released from prison, divested themselves of their outer wraps and appeared in their jail garments. These clotlus were liberally stamped with broad arrows. This exhibition acted on the sisterhood like a red rag on a bull. Megaphones aud bells wcro brought into use, and the noiso became deafening. The stewards at length lost their tempers tem-pers and as they continued their work of throwiug out tho demonstrants. tho clothes of many women were torn off their backs. At the end of half an hour or more tho opposition hecame worn out, and Mr. Lloyd-Goorge was able to continue his speech with only occasional interruption. inter-ruption. Ho assured his audicuce, which totaled fully S000 people, that there was a majority in the cabinet and the liberal purty in favor of woman suffrage, and that a suffrage clause would bo included in the qovcrnmont's franchise bill, which, however, could not bo introduced until tho evo of tho dissolution of parliament. Tho chancellor chan-cellor added that tho time of dissolution dissolu-tion had not yet arrived, though the end of this parliament was not so distant dis-tant as some people thought. The Liberals, however, still had several sev-eral accounts to scttlo and they would demonstrate to the house of lords that the houso of commons was not so important im-portant as was imagined. |