PORTIA OF THE SUFFRAGISTS.'

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3752, 11 February 1913, Page 5

PORTIA OF THE SUFFRAGISTS.'

MISS OHRISTABEL PANKHURST.

BELIEVED TO BE IN LONDON

[INDEPENDENT PRESS CABLE] LONDON, Feb. 1

There is a shrewd suspicion that Miss Oliristabel Pankhurst, who suddenly disappeared from the hotel at which she was staying in Paris, has come to London, and that it is she who is now directing the suffragettes’ operations and supplying the brains of the party.

[The “Portia of the Suffragists,” as Miss Oliristabel Pankhurst is known, is a daughter of Mrs Pankhurst, founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union, and one of the most militant of the shrieking sisterhood. She is a brilliant orator, an L.L.B. of Manchester University, and has frequently shown her organising ability as secretary of the body of which her mother' is the head and front, in March last Miss Pankhurst left London in a great hurry, to escape arrest for the part she had pi a yea in the memorable window-wrecking campaign. That was the occasion on which some hundreds of women sallied forth early in the evening, canying hammers concealed in muffs, sir* 1 distributing themselves over the princi pal West End thoroughfares, simultaneously set about- smashing the plate-glass windows of large business establishments. That was on March 1. Three days later the suffragettes: indulged in another of these sensehss outbreaks, the West End again being the scene of tlieir operations. At night an attempt was made to storm tlie House of Commons, but it was frustrated. Of the wlomen charged with window-breaking and other offences during the two days, 76 were summarily sentenced to short terms of hard labor, 42 to imprisonment in the second and third divisions, while over a hundred were committed for trial. Miss Christabel Pankhurst was among those against whom warrants were issued, but she managed to dodge the police, and get over to Paris, where she has continued to live.]