“ DEATH OR LIBERTY.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3809, 21 April 1913, Page 5

“ DEATH OR LIBERTY.”

THE CRY OF THE SUFFRAGETTES, POLICE HAVE TO PROTECT A PARTY OF WOMEN. A THREAT TO “DUCK THEM IN THE THAMES.” [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT , LONDON, April IS. George Lansbury and Mrs Drummond have been remanded on charges of incitement. Two suffragettes hoisted flags on the Fife monument. - They were inscribed “Death or Liberty!” They threw leaflets. They then took rofugo in a house and bolted the door.

The police broke open the door and arrested the culprits. A force of police protected suffragettes from a huge, threatening crowd shouting “Duck then in the Thames.” After sheltering in the police station for some hours the women were released.

(Received April 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 19. A bomb was placed on the steps at Smeaton Tower, Plymouth. It contained half a pound of gunpowder. The wick had been lighted but the wind extinguished it. The inscription attached was: “Votes for Women, or death in ten minutes.”

“WOLLY REPORTS.” A PLOT THAT WAS DISCOVERED. HOW PLANS ARE LAID. LONDON, April 8. The plot to blow up the grandstand in the Crystal Palace on April 19, the day on which tho football cup final is to be played, has been disclosed by the “Daily Express.’ The “Express” shows that all the plans were arranged with military precision. Within the Women’s Social and Political Union is a militant corps, each member of which is designated by a number, and has her duties allotted to her. In the present instance members of the corps wore to rent two houses near the Palace; other members were to study the district and the movements of the police, whilst others were to lit the fireworks ready and arrange for the scaling of fences. Three women were to set the bombs, and another member was under orders to ring a false alarm of fire. The women, however, were apparently forced to abandon their desperate "enterprise, for across the typewritten documents in which the plans are set forth in detail is written, “Wolly reports that it-is no use—everything* too well guarded.”

THE PRICE OF A THRONE. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST KING NICHOLAS. [INDEPENDENT PRESS CABLE] LONDON, April 5.

It is alleged that the Powers have offered King Nicholas of Montenegro £BOO,OOO to withdraw from Scutari, and that that monarch demands £4,000,000. The Vienna press denies the ? rumors, saying that bribery in such a matter is unthinkable. The Berlin newspapers assort that the Czar addressed an autograph letter to Nicholas advising him to yield to the pressure of the Powers. Tho blockading warships are now .strung along the coast from Antivari to Dulcigno.