The Survey

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 15, 1913

The Suffrage War

SERIOUS rioting continues in England over the suffrage question. The government has taken vigorous repressive measures against the militant suffragettes. Their headquarters has been captured, and their leaders jailed. The government has searched the homes of the leaders arrested, for the purpose of finding incriminating evidence against them. The suffragettes declare, however, that no amount of coercion, imprisonment of their members, or torture by forcible feeding will make them abandon the fight until victory has been won. They declare that it is real war now. There was wild rioting on May 4 at Trafalgar Square, when members of the free-speech defense committee attempted to plead their cause in spite of police interference. A bomb composed of nitroglycerin, and believed to have been prepared by the suffragettes, was found in one of the principal London post-offices on May 5. It contained a sufficient quantity of the explosive to wreck the entire building and kill all the employees.