Show RIOT IN PARliAMENT SQUARE Foiled in Efforts to Invade House of Commons They Resort to V Window Window Win Win- in- in I dow Sma Smashing Smashing 2 O Arrested An London ondon Nov No 21 The l.-The The uUra Jared fared ared ba badly at the haI s the police t tonight They had threatened ed to to f force i- i ie e theIr heir theIra a way Into the house of t commons and make a protest on the floor against ho tIme ministers minister's ter's rs r's refusal t to pledge the he government to a bill giving sUffrage to to both sexes but they failed to o reach the entrance to parliament Thwarted by th tho police who arr arrested 20 O women and arid three men the getts resorted to a campaign n of window j smashIng mashing Driven from Parliament square by hy the police 1800 of ot whom were on duty the women accompanied by br sympathizers and ami gangs of ot rowdies proceeded through Whitehall armed with ba bags s of stones concealed under their heir coats and broke windows In pubic public pub pub- lic ic offices Liberal headquarters and amid the he National Liberal club They rhe even extended their operations to the Strand where windows wIndo of ot the bank and ind other private concerns suffered from the tho onslaught The rhe militant tactics of the getts getta etts followed a statement by hy Premier Asquith that the time government was vas unable unable unable un un- un- un able to Introduce a bill to enfranchise women as the cabinet was divided on the question but would allow an amendment to b be Introduced introduce to the proPosed proposed pro pro- posed manhood suffrage bill leaving It 11 to the house of or commons to decide whether women should be bt given Riven I en a Vote ote |