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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, October 14, 1913, Image 21

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POLICE "FORCED TO RELEASE
MISS PANKHURST
London, OctL14. After having ar
rested Miss Sylvia Pankhurst while
she was making a speech in the East
End of London, the police were so
severely attacked by militant suffra
gets that they were compelled to re
lease Miss Pankhurst She disap
peared. '
Miss Pankhjirst, who tias still an
uncompleted jail sentence to serve,
disguised herself and entered the hall
where she-was to speak. She had
been talking but a few moments
when police entered and made a rush
for her. " v
Women hurled chairs, some in the
galleries even dropping benches on
the policemen's heads. The officers
used their clubs freely,but the bat
tle waged almost half an hour before
the police succeeded in dragging Miss
Pankhurst outside.
The struggle became more furious
then. Men and women'were knocked
down and trampled on. Some of the
women afterward declared they had
been thrown down and kicked by the
police, but the mob succeeded in
wrenching Miss Pankhurst from the
officers and she disappeared.
Miss Zelie Emerson of Jackson,
Mich., who was released from Hol
loway jail in an almost dying condi
tion some months ago, was-one of
those injured last night." One suf
fraget was arrested.
Miss Annie Kenney, arrested Oct.
6, and who has been hunger-striking
since, was released last night, after
threats had been made by militants
to bombard the Home Office and
camp on- Right Hon. Reginald Mc
Kenna's front steps until they could
get at him.
Washington. According to pres
ent plaps of immigration authorities,
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst will be de
tained, at Ellis Island when she ar
rives t)n the liner La Provence this
week until a special board of inquiry
can determine whether she comes ,
within the class of aliens excluded
from the United States. Scores of
protests against her admission,
lodged with local authorities at New
York, Jeave no other course open to
the authorities. .
LAUNCH WAR AGAINST "CIVIC
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS"
The Young-People's Civic League
launched one of its most important
campaigns against "civic unright
eousness" last night at a big meeting
held at 315 Plymouth court.
Miss Mary Balcomb, Dr. Philip W.
Yarrow, Dr. Howard H. Russell and
Rev. Melville P. Boynton will be the
moving spirits in the campaign. . -
All those attending the meeting
were requested to say a prayer every
time they passed a saloon.
Fred L. D. Squires, editor of the
American Advance, scored Mayor
Harrison for the levity, with which he
treated Major Funkhouser's vice .re
port. o o
A MERE MAN COULDN'T KNOW
He What do you think of an ar
tist who painted cobwebs on the ceil
ing so truthfully that the servant
wore herself into an attack of nerv
ous prostration trying to sweep them
down?
She There may have been such
an artist, but there never was such a
servant i
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