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Show MILITIT WOMEN DO GREAT DAMAGE Delay, in Delivery of Telegrams, Tele-grams, Owing to the Cutting Cut-ting of Wires. LONDON, Feb. S. Militant suffragettes suf-fragettes destroj-ed many valuable plants and did other damages reaching a total of 5000, in tho hothouses of tho Kew horticultural gardens early today. Thus they developed anothei part of their plan of campaign to force tho government to give the vote to women. It is believed a number of women hid themselves in the gardens overnight, over-night, for this morning before tho day staff came on duty it was found that a largo number of rare orchids had been uprooted and scattered in all di-; di-; rections. Thirty panes of glass in the orchid house were broken. When the night watchmen mado their rounds at 1 o'clock in the morning everything was still in good order and tho women must have laid their plans well in order to find hiding places where thev could lie in security. No traco of them has since been iound. Tbo window smashing raids continued contin-ued in London today. Two immenso windows in an establishment in Oxford Ox-ford street, which hitherto has been immune because of tho proprietor's contributions to tho women's funds were broken. , The postal authorities today issued a notice that thcro would bo delay on all telegrams to tho north of England as the result of tho cutting of the telegraph wires in tho provinces by the suffragettes yesterday. |