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Show SJFFRAGETESPLAN sosruipoi LONDON", March 1 Bocause the coal miners had been able to gain government recognition of their grievances griev-ances by threatening the business of U)e country, the suffragettes late today to-day entered upon a policv of menace to trade. They carried It out suddenly and with an ardor that resulted In "heavy financial losses, brought consternation to merchants of the most prosperous shopping district of tho city and paralyzed business. Boforo the police po-lice wore able to muster their forces and restrain the women, the sidewalks side-walks were covered with shattered plate glass from the show windows of , stores It was a window-breaking expedition solely and a thoroughly organised or-ganised one. Hundreds of windows In many of the most famous shops of the world and .several government ofllces and clubs wore wiecked by tho suffragettes. suf-fragettes. The damage will aggiegate thousands of pounds, but is largely covered by insurance against breakage. break-age. One luindred and fifteen women """"il to thf police stations by police or excited and Indignant Uinuiuius, Many others, however, escaped. All those arrested were re- .u.w.u into u tuning jii Mian, wuuiii;u with promises to refrain from furthor window-breaking Son:e shop keepers who saw the storm coming were able to cloBe their shutters and barricade their doors. The troublo centered about Trafalgar square, tanged along the Strand eastward east-ward and westward and up Re?ept street, Piccadilly and Oxlord streets, whore are situated the fashlonablo jewolry and dry goods houses Mrs. Emraolliie Pankhurst. the et-oran et-oran of manv a suffragette battlo, struck tho first blow In an automobile, automo-bile, accompanied by Mrs Marshall and Mrs Tuckos, she drove to the premier's residence in Downing street at G o'clock. The three women leaped from the machine and drew out stones concealed In their muffs Four windows wore clashed In befoie the police could reach the women, The trio were arrested, but while being led to the station managed to heave mlBsIIes through the windows of tho colonial office. Pandemonius broke out In the shopping shop-ping district at the samo time Taxl-oabs Taxl-oabs were the favorite vehicles of approach used by tho suffragettes and large numbers of Innocent looking women wero helped out of (horn by porters stationed In front of stores, There was no hesitation on the part of the women, who at once attacked the Bhow windows with bricks or hammers. ham-mers. The surprise of the porters was so great that many of the miscreants mis-creants wore ablo to lose themselves In the crowds before tho guaidlans of the shops could collect their forces and restrain them The women who did not use taxlcabs merel walked along tho streets, cracking or smashing smash-ing windows with hammers, whllo crowds followed thorn cheering or hooting Tho police wero wholly unable to deal with such a widespread outbreak out-break and at least nine-tenths of the window-breaking army escaped. The air was filled with sounds of police whistles, yells, the slamming of blinds and shrieks of frightened shoppers, shop-pers, punctuated now and then with cries pf 'Vote for women " Wlionever a window was shattered, thero the crowd surged, while tho employes em-ployes of tho shop rushed to tho street to prevent the unprotected goods from being stolen Not oven the establishments of undertakers ' wero spared. So Btoically and quickly was the -work accomplished that It was well over before tho police reserves re-serves could bo called out. Hundreds of extra policemen were on duty tonight to-night protecting the damaged hulld-lnsB, hulld-lnsB, while thousands of sightseers tramped the streets to view tho havoc wrought by the women. The suffragette leaders declare it is their puipoBC to continue their campaign cam-paign of wjndow-hieaking until, like the coal mlneis, they force the government gov-ernment to take up their claims for suffrage In order to protect the business busi-ness Interests. Although 150 suffragettes were arrested, ar-rested, among them" many prominent leaders in tho movement, windows were smashed In between a dozen and a score of s.hops each In the Stiand, Piccadilly, Bond street and Regent street, half a dozen each In Oxford, Cockspur street and Hayraarkcr. Some of the larger Jewelry Dlores had aB many as a dozen windows broken. |