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Show TORCH IS APPLIED , BY SUFFRAGETTES London, April 4 Tho Suffragettes continuing their campaign of retaliation retalia-tion against tho sentencing of Mrs. Pankhurst their leader to term ot Imprisonment succeeded tonight In destroying another lnrgo country houso by fire. As In provlous cases of tho kind the residence- which was situated at Chorleywood Buckingham shiro was unoccupied but was being prepared for tho reception ot a tenant. Tho ownera of tho building , firm ot contractors con-tractors estimate- their loss at 912,500 CardB bearing the Inscription votes for women and other suffragetto mottoes wero found on tho grounds. No arrests were made. Tho police bellvo that some of tho recent criminal nets attributed to tho suffragettes principally ho attomptB to destroy railway property were tne work of men engaged by tho women. All tho railway stations and tunnels nro being patrolled to prevent damage dam-age by miscreants. Miss Scott-Troy the California suffragette suf-fragette forwarded tonight to secretary secret-ary of stato Bryan at Washington samples of tho "Instruments of torture," tor-ture," used forcibly to feed suffragettes suffra-gettes in eluding' Miss Z. Emerson. An accomponylng noto explains that tho samples do not contain the metal lie tip which all tho women declare Is used In prison. Dr. MoulUn, whom Mrs. Emerson desired to visit her daughter In prison pri-son has written Secretary Ilryan declaring de-claring that ono of tho greatest dang ers of forcible feeding as practiced in tho prison Is the absence of proper antUeptlc precautions. Mrs. Pankhursh ha9 carried out her threat to go on a hunger strike. Tho Inst meal she took was luncheon bofore sontonco was imposed upon her yesterday. Slnco she entorod Holloway Jail Bhe has conformed to all Its rules oxcept that she refuses food. -Mrs. Pankhurst will bo remov-1 remov-1 1 ed to tho womons penal establishment 1 1 whero any stepB that nro conaldered necessary to feed her will bo taken. |