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Show MUTANT "REM OF TERROR" k AW A fi r if a. HE "Reign of Terror" of the militant snf- I fragettes of Great Britain has now been In I progress for slightly more than one year. J The record of its first twelve months shows stSsa that Mrs. Johns chose the name well. On 0tk, tlle niSnt of ABril 3. 1913 this woman, one kT k ' tne most aggressive of the leaders, speak- ffi ing in Glasgow, borrowed from the French sessgli Revolution that appellation with which to 7 christen the new frenzy of militancy, come to life that day. She added that the militancy of 'the past would be "the merest pin pricks compared to what will happen at once all over the country." On the same day, in London, officers of the Women's Social and Political union turned to the Boer war for a phrase, and declared that what was to be done "would stagger humanity." Yet another leader announced that "human life, we have resolved, will be respected no longer." Throughout the army of the militants, in short, there flamed fresh fury on that day. The reason was that Mrs. Pankhurst was then sentenced sen-tenced to penal servitude for three years for inciting the destruction of the country house of Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd George. The suffragettes rioted in Old Bailey after Justice Sir Charles Lush pronounced sentence, and then went from the court to begin their reign of terror. ' The initial act of the militants was the defacing that afternoon in the Manchester art gallery of five paintings . by Leighton and other famous artists. The initial act of the authorities, in preparation for the reign, was the issuance- of a general warning by Scotland Yard to owners own-ers and tenants of property, and the taking of unusual precautions by the police throughout the United Kingdom. King-dom. Since then, according to the published records, not a day, and for days in sequencej scarcely an hour, has passed without militant damage being done to person or to property, or without danger or fear or inconvenience being caused to some of the public. The activities of the militants have ranged from throwing throw-ing pepper on Premier' Asquith and a dead cat at Augustine Augus-tine Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland, to burning the Midland railway sheds at Bradford with a loss of $500,-000, $500,-000, and attempting to blow up part of the Bank of England. They have endangered hundreds of lives; they have done direct property damage and caused indirect losses to the extent of millions of dollars. The militants In their campaigns have used fire, bombs, mines, hatchets, hammers, revolvers, pokers, knives, bludgeons, stones, tar, paint, riding switches, horse whips, dog whips, umbrellas, foul smelling chemicals, chem-icals, corrosive chemicals, barbed wire entanglements for police, besides using .as weapons their fists, nails, teeth and feet. The militants have burned wholly or partly, country mansions in charge of servants, who escaped only by being awakened by the flames; castles, including Balli-kinrain, Balli-kinrain, Alberuchile and Lisburn; unoccupied country houses, some owned by peers and members of parliament; parlia-ment; railway stations, railway sheds, railway cars, churches, factories, timber yards, hayricks, exhibition buildings, conservatories, race track grandstands, cricket grandstands, football grandstands, furniture, organs, tapestries, paintings, boat houses, racing shells, a Carnegie Car-negie library, town corporation structures, college and school buildings (including a Cambridge laboratory), and an empty hospital. Th'ey have attempted to burn the Royal academy, buildings at Harrow school, aeroplane sheds of the army flying corps, and a historic church. They have plotted, according to the Daily Mirror'to burn London by slmul- ' taneously firing all the big timber yards and cutting the telephone and telegraph wires surrounding. They have with bombs destroyed or damaged shops, railway stations, railway cars, churches, country houses, conservatories, the Royal observatory at Edinburgh, the Liverpool cotton exchange and the Trade hall at Manchester. Man-chester. ' They have destroyed with bomb an empty car attached to an express train, endangering passengers in other cars, and they are charged with having tried to wreck an express by obstructing the track. They have placed bombs which failed to work or were found before exploding in streets, shops, tube stations, castles, a public library, a tennis club, a theater, St Paul's cathedral and the football pavilion at Cambridge. They have sent bombs through the mails, addressed to Reginald McKenna. home secretary, and other prominent men, one of the bombs badly injuring the hand of a mail sorter; they have exploded mines in attempts to blow up Holloway prison, and to breach a canal to cause a flood; they have plotted to blow up houses of members of parliament; par-liament; they have scattered dummy bombs broadcast, both to advertise their movement and to terrorize. At one time the London papers declared that "every day brings its bomb." and instructions on the art of handling unexploded bombs safely were printed daily. They have pummeled Premier Asquith, dog-whipped Lord Weaniale, horsewhipped Holloway prison physicians, physi-cians, hurled apples in court at Justice Lord Salvesen, thrown hammers at a judge in Old Bailey, scattered It it fiiM M S t - -4. i i flour over Thomas McKinnon Wood, -secretary for Scotland, Scot-land, and over John Redmond, and have painted Redmond's Red-mond's statue green; they have covered the earl of Derby's statue with tar; they have harassed cabinet ministers min-isters at meetings; they have plotted to kidnap Chancellor Chancel-lor Lloyd George, Justice Lush (who sentenced Mrs. Pankhurst) and the children of Winston Spencer Churchill, Chur-chill, first lord of the admiralty; they have threatened Home Secretary McKenna with death, and are categorically categori-cally charged with having tried to throw over the cliffs into the sea the late Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, a judge who had sentenced many suffragettes. They have rioted Sunday after Sunday in Trafalgar square or Hyde park and have marched, now shrieking, now singing "The March of the Women," to Downing street in attempts to besiege Premier Asquith's official residence. These riots have meant serious affrays with the police and many arrests. They have ruined or injured thousands of letters in hundreds of mail boxes throughout the British isles by the use of corrosive fluids; court proceedings showei that in ten weeks in London alone they destroyed or damaged 8,445 mail packets in 565 boxes. They have smashed tens of thousands of windows in cities and towns ail over the kingdom, including the windows win-dows of police stations. They have slashed famous paintings and smashed curios in museums; they have torn up public flower beds, ruined putting greens on golf courses, wrecked furniture In newspaper offices, caused disturbances in the house of commons, punctured hundreds of automobile tires, fired a huge Crimean war cannon at night and fright- ened the whole city of Blackburn, ruined library books by cutting the leaves, stamped hotel bedding with "Votes for Women," thrown chemicals of foul odor at town councilors, wrecked taxicab interiors, interrupted meetings meet-ings of learned societies and political parties, and daubed white paint over much of the interior of Birmingham Bir-mingham cathedral. They have plotted to damage lighthouses light-houses and to attack every theater and music hall In London simultaneously by scattering a pungent powder over the audiences to cause sneezing and skin burning. They have interrupted many services in Westminster abbey, St. Paul's cathedral, York minster, Glasgow cathedral, and other churches by chanting "God Save Mrs. Pankhurst," and before being ejected they have sometimes fought, shrieked and Iain on the floor kicking. They have defaced tapestries and paintings during the progress of elaborate receptions In the West end of London, some of them given by peeresses, so that frightened fright-ened hostesses, had to engage numerous detectives as guards. They have scattered suffragette leaflets upon the king and queen, and have harangued the royal pair in theaters and on the street; they have attempted to mob the royal carriage; they have caused discord in Buckingham palace, pal-ace, the queen becoming furiously angry with ladles-in-waiting who espoused the militant cause, among the resignations res-ignations from the court entourage being that of Lady Shaftesbury; they have obtained the private telephone number of the king and have got him on the wire, to his exasperation; they have caused cards fpr court presentations presenta-tions to be changed in form and have made extra precautions precau-tions on court days necessary. They have hurt the London season and the tourist trade and thus inflicted extensive Iors of business upon shops and hotels; they have caused large sums to be spent for guards for country estates, historic castles, railroad stations and tunnels, churches, museums, shops! municipal buildings, and Shakespeare memorials- they have caused the regatta at Henley and the golf'cham-pionships golf'cham-pionships at St. Andrews to he "as if they were in a state of siege.'' so the cables said, because , of the numerous numer-ous guards; they have caused wholesale closing of public pub-lic buildings In, London and other places, Including Windsor Wind-sor castle. Tower of London (jewel room), Hampton court palace. British museum, and cathedrals, museums and art galleries generally; they have forced each cabinet cabi-net minister to have three detectives ns constant guards and they have madp the police "nerve racked," again In the words of the cables. |