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Show KING IS BOMBARDED WITH LITERATURE EDINBURGH. July 6. King- George and Queen Mary were bombarded with suffragette literature today by militants on their arrival here. Two women obtained possession of a balcony in a house opposite the station and as the royal carriage emerged they threw down upon it a lot of suffragette appeals. Two detectives seized them, spoiling their aim. Some of the handbills hand-bills fluttered into the stand and the royal carriage passed over them. The king, looking up, saw toe women struggling in the arms of officers. They were removed to the police station, the crowd along the way giving them a mixed reception of cheers mingled with hooting. hoot-ing. The women gave the names of Lock and Owen. Among their missiles was a paper ball containing a message "to show King George that women are being persecuted perse-cuted for defending their freedom." |