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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THURSDATc JUNE 5, 1913. who got a glimpse of what happened. The SHIPYARD WAGES. THE ULSTER RIFLES. COMPULSORY SERVICE.

THE RACECOURSE AND THE RACE. SUFFRAGETTE INCENDIARY CODE. PAINFUL SCENE AT THE DERBY. A TREMENDOUS CROWD. London, "Wednesday.

A young Frenchman, whoso side-whiskers in their downward progress had become dis couraged in the region of his ears, leaned anxiously across the railway carriage. He hold out a oink newspaper. "Pardon. monsieur," he said, "but what 13 this you call a 'smasher' Taking the newspaper one of the journals that seem to be always winking at the reader over a ripe cigar I found that its prophet at Epsom had dis missed Nirnbus as "hardly a smasher, meaning that he was not stout enough to stay the course against the rushing Crag anour. I broke this to the Frenchman, tnd he was polito but unbelieving.

He brought exact knowledge from Longchanips imd Auteuil, and told me exactly how Nimbus beat Pere Marquette and how ho would stay for ever. Frenchmen went down in crowds to-day, and as every Derby must have its tag this may as well be known as the French Derby. On tho course my little Frenchman pointed with his ivory-tipped stick to a thin man with a tiny grey beard, and a bunch of cornflowers in his button-hole, The great Clieri-Halbrown," known to sporting writers as "the French Tattersall." My friend had been immensely taken with a Lambeth tipster who showed a huge "Ici on parle fran5ais" more out of friendliness than anxiety to converse in French. But the tipsters know-all about "l'Entente Cordiale." They freely tipped Nimbus for a place. When we first came out at Tattenhwn Corner the Parisian drew a deep breath of delight.

And in the glow of his enthusiasm one's worn impressions of that amazing scene revived. There was a good light for seeing under that dove-coloured sky, and the pattern was singularly sharp. The long curving lane of green twisted away jnto the black multitude at tho end, the lordly pyramidal stand, all in regimented masses as if seen through a diminishing glass. It was a friendly act to tell him that ho had.ti,. apprentices, not being concerned in the come to a rench Derby, out the application lor an advance of wages.

the within mo said that tho label might as truly withdrawal of the skilled labour would of be "The motor-'bus Derby." The jollv make progress practically impossible i- I ami a general closing down would ensue, 'buses ranged on the slope carried on tho hue I Tho tho doratp(1 shipvapd finns of stands for half a mile. Never wero there tho Clyde, the Tyne. Wear, and so many at Epsom. They mado a fine Hartlepools district, Aberdeen, Dundee, and coloured rampart against the crowd that tho East of Scotland district, Hull, Barrow. race had been over for some moments before the news reached the stands and the King learnt what had befallen his jockev.

He was standing in the Jockey Club at the time, ana soon afterwards he looked on with great concern at the spectacle of the jockey, bleeding and with closed eves, carried oast on a stretcher towards the hospital. The King men went to tell the Queen what had happened. The doctor afterwards reported to the King that Jones had had a wonderful escape. One of his arms wa9 iniured and he was bruised all over, and one of his ribs was broken. Miss Davison's Condition.

The woman was far more seriously hurt, and the first report that spread about the course was that she was killed. She turned out to bo one of the best known of the mili tant suffragists, Miss Emily Wilding Davison. It is said that underneath her jacket was found a suffragette flae tied round her bodv. A house surgeon at the Epsom Cottage Hospital a couple of hours after the accident re ported that she was suffering from severe con cussion of the brain. She has lain unconscious since the time of her admission," he said, "and it is impossible to say for a few nours whether life will be saved." The first clue to her identity was the finding of a paper in her possession bearing the words W.a.P.U.

Helpers." The people who were near enough to see what happened could not believe at first that the woman ran out deliberated. Thev thought that she must have had the idea that all the horses had gone by, and had rushed on tne course, as everyone does, as soon as tho racers have passed. The only alternative to this theory in the mind of the crowd was that it was the deed of a mad person or a suicide. for it was about as dangerous a thing to do as it would be to throw oneself in the track of an express train. At Tattenham Corner the horses corao sweeping round a sharp curve and clown a slope with enormous speed.

They are always closely bunched together here, each rider getting as near the rail as he can. by this time, as tho horses have been running iur neariy a mne, tne pace is at its highest. A Weakly Guarded Course. so closely do the jockeys "hug" the rail licro that there is ahvavs a certain danger for tho people who are leaning over it, and this is always a point of great anxiety for tho police. It has long been a debated question in tho sporting newspapers whether too much freedom is not allowed the public at the Corner.

There is singularly little restriction here. I he Derby crowd is highly disciplined, and after the course is cleared by the mounted police is more or less left to look after itself. At the opposite side of the course people aro even allowed to stand on the turf with no railings between them and tho horses, and one would have expected that anyone so demented as to run in the way of tho horses would have done it from there. The free-and-easy habits of Tattenham Corner are one of the points about the Derby that greatly impress foreign visitors accustomed to the regimental methods of the race- oursc police on tho Continent. It is said that some of tho French owners have actually complained that they are afraid of trusting their horses on a course so little safeguarded.

They complain also of the way in which the course is allowed to be 6trewn with paper, fruit-skins, and so on. Miss Davison found little difficultv in making her wild attempt. There were police men posted every few yards outside the rati ngs, but thev coukl not possibly prevent a sudden rush. At that point there is an opening in tho railings for tho passage of motors across the course, and between the races this is a public highway. It is not fastened with a gate while the races are in procress.

It would not surprise anyone if drastic new regulations aro the outcome of this sensational affair. MISS DAVISON'S CONDITION CRITICAL. At 10 15 last night it was reported that Miss Davison still remains unconscious. Her injuries, which are serious, are chiefly about the head. She is also suffering from severe shock.

Her condition remains ciitical, but her medical attendant expresses hopes of her ultimate recovery. The Queen sent a message to Epsom Hospital last night to inquire as to Miss Davison's condition. THE INJURED JOCKEY. Herbert Jones had recovered sufficiently to bo removed from Jpsom to ljoncton last night, and he is now at the Liverpool Street Station hotel. MISS DAVISON'S CAREER IN MILITANCY.

MUa F.milv AVildinR Davison (who, as a keen controversialist on the militant side, has been a frequent, contributor to the discussion con ducted in the correspondence coiuinos oi me 'Manchester Guardian is one 01 tne oest- known suffragettes. is tie lives at ixmgnorsiey, Northumberland, and is a B.A. of London Uni- versitv She joineu me uu i. nu Political Union in November, 1906, and the following remarkable record of her Imprisonments for militancy is given in The Suffrage Annual and Women's Who's 1. March 30, 1909, one montn for going on 1909, two months for obstruction at Limehouw, released after five-and-a-half days' hunger strike.

9f.nrein.ber 4, 1909, stone throwing at White City, Manchester, two months, but w-leased iSter two-and-a-half days' hunger St4 October 20, 1909, stone throwing at hard labour on each count. huneer struck, forcibly fed, hosepipe incident SStwtSwSa prison, and released at end of eight days. iq lQio. broke a window inside TToule of Commons; one month, hunger rtrnck. forcibly fed, ana released aiter eigui days 4-.

ia 1911. arrested for setting fire to pmarTboies City of Westminster; Hollo-way, remand one week, 7 Tanuary 10, 1912, for above, sentenced at nii Bailev to six months' imprisonment sSuck twice with others, and twice fZri- released ten days before sen-fi account of injuries sustained protest made against forcible feeding 8 November 30, 1912, sentenced to ten days for assaulting a Baptist minis-iSPS Stake for Mr. Lloyd George at Aberdeen station; hunger struck, and released at end of four days' fast. Was arrested on great deputation together with Mrs. Pankhurst, June 29, 1909.

January 19, 1910, won case against visiting malistrates of Strangeways Prison, Manches- SSTS Ski also June, 1911. KING AND THE ASCOT MEETING. The King and Queen go to Windsor a week to-morrow for the Ascot meeting and on the tolling day, the Saturday preceding Ascot the King will give a luncheon atthe Castle to Knights of the Order of tt Garter. STILL LYING UNCLAIMED AT THE DOCKS. The twelve cases of rifles shipped on a small boat from Manchester and detained bv the authorities at Belfast docks on the ground that they were wrongly described as containing "electrical plant wore still at the docks yesterday in charge of tho police.

No ono had appeared to claim them, and the authorities, before taking any further steps, are waiting for directions from Dublin Castle. Our Belfast correspondent, telegraphing yesterday, says: Window-dressing has long been an art of the Ulster Unionists, and twenty-four hours' study of tho matter has convinced most people that the whole busi ness rrom beginning tc end was a piece ot stagecraft; a night's reflection only con- nrms what I wrote last night when 1 said t-nai tiie Ulster Unionists can slip their secrets when it suits them, as they can keep their secrets when it pays them to do so. The arms are still at the dock, much to tho disgust of the ultra-Unionists, who were expecting every moment of the day some dramatic development, and could not under stand why the Government took the matter so coolly. They perhaps do not know that at the beginning of April instructions were received in Belfast to watch all vessels from the Mersey and the Ship Canal, a fact that can now be stated without a breach of confidence." THE TRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY DEBATE. (From Our Correspondent.) Belfast, Wednesday.

At the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, sitting hi Belfast to-day, there was a skirmish preliminary to the Home Rule debate on Friday. As stated yesterday, there was a motion tabled on behalf of the Rev. W. Park to the effect that the Assembly declares itself against Home Rule, and to-day an amendment to that motion handed in on behalf of the Rev. R.

W. Hampton, of Lisburn, which, it may be stated, is one of Captain James Craig's supposed strongholds. That amendment declares "the Assembly reaffirms the unanimous decision of last year, to the effect that the views of the vast majority of the Presbyterians of Ireland on Home Rule received sufficient expression at the Presbyterian Convention held in Belfast in February last year, and does not consider it necessary to make any pronouncement on the subject at present." The reading of the amendment was followed bv some ap plause, mingled with laughter. The opponents ot itorne Jiule are making every effort to nae a record attendance on Friday, and to-day waverers were appealed to "to vote straight," as it is called by one of the newspapers, quoting the words of a former famous Presbyterian clergyman, who said in 1841: "The Cross represents the Union, while it seals the reconciliation between God and man." QUESTIONS IX THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Several questions were addressed to the Chief Secretary for Ireland in the House of Commons yesterday in reference to the deten tion by the Customs authorities at Belfast of a number of cases of rifles sent from Manchester to that port by the steamship Helen.

Mr. J. King (L North Somerset) asked whether the Belfast Customs authorities on Tuesday seized 2,000 rifles and bayonets which were being landed from the steamship Helen; and, if so, whether these arms were made in Germany. (Laughter.) Mr. W.

A. S. Hewins (U Hereford) Before the Chief Secretary answers that question, may I ask him to state whether the arms received were wooden guns? (Derisive Nationalist cheers.) Mr. Birrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland): I have been informed that-the Customs authorities at Belfast, finding certain cases not entered in the ship's manifest on the steamship Helen, in the exercise of their statutory powers examined the cases, and found that they contained about 500 rifles, apparently of Italian origin. (Laughter.) Sir-W.

P. Byles (L North Salford): Do 1 understand that the exporters of these rifles, who are said to be in Manchester, are not known to the authorities, and, if they are known, are they under observation Mr. Birrell: The Customs authorities have taken the pieliminary steps, and have detained these Italian guns, and further proceedings, I have no doubt, will be exercised in pursuance of the law. Mr. VV.

Crooks (1 ab. Woolwich) Have they paid duty as foreign manufactured goods? Mr. Birrell: Not yet. (Laughter.) HUNGARIAN PREMIER DENOUNCED. UPROAR IN THE CHAMBER.

(Reoter's Correspondent.) Budapest, Wednesday. The proceedings in the Lower House of the Hungarian Parliament this morning were marked by the most uproarious scenes. When Dr. Lukacs, the Premier, who decided to resign after the adverse judgment given yesterday against him in his libel action against the deputy M. Desy, appeared he was received with insulting shouts by the Opposition, and there were scenes of the greatest disorder, which were repeated when Count Tisza entered.

The Government party greeted Count Tisza and the Premier with loud cheers, to which the Opposition responded with counter-cheers, while there was a running firo of insulting remarks from both sides. The President in vain sought to restore order. As the uproar did not come to an end, the sitting was suspended and the Parliamentary police were called in. On entering the House the officers were received with cries of "Shame!" and shouts of derision. Overcome with excitement, tho captain of the force seized one of the disorderly deputies, a member of the Kossuth party, and had him ejected from the House.

Some other members were also ordered to leave, and they departed after offering some resistance and uttering abusive remarks. The police thereupon withdrew, and of the Opposition only the few members to whom the President's order of exclusion did not apply remained. At the reopening of the sitting the members of the Opposition present rose from their seats and, after shouting insults such as "Coward!" and "Murderer!" at Count Ti3za, left the House. Dr. Lukacs then announced the resigna tion of the Cabinet, and moved the adjournment of the House sine die, which was agreed to.

The sitting then terminated, amid cheers for Count Tisza and Dr. Lukacs. DEFEAT OF SALAR EDDOWLEH REPORTED. According to information received by the Persian Government, says Reuter's Teheran correspondent, Salar ed-Dowleh's men have severely defeated by the Sipahdar's son, I and it is reported that Salar ed-Dowleh has (fled with only thirty men. EMPLOYERS' STAND AGAINST INCREASE.

NO IMMEDIATE STRIKE. The representatives of the shipyard trade unions took with them to the conference with the shipbuilding employers in Edinburgh yesterday conclusive proof of a readiness to strike in support of demand for a 5 per cent advance in wages, the ballot having given a. vote of 12,215 in favour of tendering notices. Apparently this did not impress the employers, who to the end of a series of meetings that lasted with intervals from noon until after ten at night maintained the attitude adopted by them at the first conference on the question in March namely, that the state of the industry did not justify an increase of 5 per cent on piece rates and Is. (or id.

an hour) on time rates. They added yesterday that tho position now is less favourable than it was six weeks ago; the industry simply would not stand another advance. Thev. how ever, made certain counter-proposals not yet ana tne union leaders decided to consider these before proceeding to a strike dna arrange ror another conference next week. The refusal of the advance in face of the ballot figures was expected to lead to an immediate strike, but the disposition shown to parley further tends to remove that danger.

Possibly tho largeness of the vote in favour of accepting tho proposal of the employers to defer the application until July had some influence with the leaders. The figures of the ballot were as follows: For giving notice 12,215 For accepting proposal of three months' postponement 4,348 Majority for strike 7,807 The boilermaknrs' vote is not included in tho figures given. They were balloted on tho question of sanctioning joint action with the other unions, with the following result In favour, against, 624; majority for, 6.206. The number of those taking part in tho two ballots appears small in comparison with tho number estimated to be involved in an entire stoppage namely, about 120,000. It should ho understood that only the skilled trade unions voted, tho large number of un- tho yards aro situated on the Clyde and on tho north-east coast, and Barrow and Birkenhead aro represented by only three firms.

THE AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. SMALL LIBERAL MAJORITY ASSURED. Tho complete results of the Australian Federal elections are not yet known, but tho latest news says that almost certainly the Liberal Opposition will obtain a majority in tho Houso of Representatives, while the six constitutional amendments submitted to a Referendum by the defeated Labour Government will probably bo carried. An exactly opposite result was predicted in the earlier telegrams. Lncertainty and delay have been caused by tho system of "absentee" voting, under which an elector not living in tho constituency where ho is enfranchised polls where ho lives and has his vote forwarded to the right division.

In these circumstances counting takes much time. So far as is known, tho Liberals have returned 38 members to the Houso of Repro sentatives and tho Labour party 36. One seat is still in doubt. It that at Ballarat, where the Liberal majority at the last election was 8. In the Senate the figures aro Labour, 30; Liberals, 6.

(Reuter's Correspondent.) Melbourne, Thursday. The results of the Australian Federal elections are still incomplete, but it is fairly certain that the Liberals will have a majority in the Houso of Representatives of one or three. Much depends upon tho result of the contest at Ballarat. In this constituency, which was represented in the last Parliament by Mr. Alfred Deakin, the former Prime Minister, wiio has now retired from political life, Mr.

H. V. McKav, Liberal, is beinc opposed by Mr. D. C.

McGrath, Labour. The latest referenda figures show a majority of approximately 8,000 votes in Victoria in favour of the Government's proposals. If this position be maintained, it will form, with the known from Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia, the majority of States needed to carry the proposals. The polling thus far also shows the requisite aggregate majority vote in all the States. THE ADVANTAGES OF COUNCIL OVER CHURCH SCHOOLS.

A MACCLESFIELD CONSERVATIVE LEADER'S CONVICTION. The Macclesfield Town Council yesterday discussed the provision of elementary school ac commodation in the Hurdsfield area of the borough. At present there are two Church schools in the district, and some months ago the Education Committee agreed with the managers to purchase one of the schools for 1,500, and to convert it into a Council school on condition that the managers spent the money on improving the other school. The Committee now recommended that the draft scheme of the Board of Education embodying the proposal should be objected to and the managers of the school invited to a conference. Alderman A.

Oldfield. the leader of the Conservative party in the Council, supported the recommendation of the Committee. Although, he said, he was a strong Churchman and had supported Church schools in the past, it had been slowly but surely borne upon him that, in the interests of the children, the teachers, and tne ratepayers, this scheme was bad. He had seen such a revelation in the two Council schools recently erected by the Corporation of the boon they had been to the children of the town and of the improved conditions under which education was carried on that he was perfectly satisfied to champion the contention that a new Council school ought to be erected to serve the needs of the whole of the Hurdsfield area. Councillors R.

Brown and A. W. Hewetson, two other Conservative members of the Council, supported the Committee's recommendation, which was eventually carried by 20 votes to 19. RETURN OF THE TERRA NOVA. The Lord Mayor of Cardiff yesterday received a telegram stating that the Terra Nova had arrived at the Azores, and was leaving yesterday for Cardiff, where she is expected to arrive on JM0.4& "MANCHESTER GUARDIAN'S" OPPOSITION.

NATIONAL SERVICE LEAGUE INDIGNANT. The opposition which tho "Manchester Guardian" has ottered to compulsory military service was denounced in strong terms at a meeting yesterday of the Executive Committee of the Lancashire County Branch of the National Service League. Mr. D. E.

Anderson, the chairman of the Committee, presided, and his criticism of the "Manchester Guardian was emphasised by Mr. T. C. Horsfall. Tho report of tho organising secretary, Major Strachan, stated that since tho last meeting of the Executive S3 new members, 1,428 associates, and 2.S46 ad herents had joined the League.

Every ad herent had paid at least one penny on receiv ing the card. Mr. Anderson, in the course of his speech, said that no one with experience of public affairs expected that all people or every newspaper would agree wholly with his views on any particular subject, and they must be prepared to have their most cherished ideas Tather roughly treated, and often by their particulat friends. To this no one could reasonably ob ject, and disputants could agree to differ withe out loss of respect or hurt feelings on eithefi side. But," he went on, there is one el ment which is absolutely unfair and destest able, and that is the cowardly attacks of soma of the leading papers, chiefly Radical, such as the Manchester Guardian and the Manchester Evening News," and others like them elsewhere, -who hi the most grossly unfair way attack and misrepresent, not only national service, but all connected with it.

Some papers seem to cast aside all decent restraint, and have no hesitation whatever in accrediting the lowest possible motives to our revered president, Lord Roberts, and others who support the National Service League. Take, for instance, the abuse hurled upon Lord Roberts after our great Manchester meeting. For nearly ten days after that meeting the columns of the Manchester Guardian" teemed with letters full of scurrilous attacks on national service in general, and Lord Roberts in particular. Yet the Manchester Guardian people simply iguoied letters sent them in refutation of these attacks, or if they did insert them in their columns, did so in such a mutilated condition as to cause such letters, in some cases, to read exactly the reverse of what was intended. THE WORD "CONSCRIPTION." The same policy has been pursued ever since.

Never once in these papers du you see compulsory service referred to. Conscription is their catch word, and day after day, week after week, the Manchester Guardian and other like papers go on saddling the National Service League with that bogey of conscription, which only exists in their perverted imagination. My greatest regret over all this is the fact that 90 per cent of the purchasers of these papers never read any other, consequently tho lying statements put forth time and again come to be believed and accepted as truth, which means that national service is condemned by tens of thousands who have no knowledge whatever of the real aims and proposals of the League, but who have been led to a wrong judgment through the false impressions gathered from these papers. Not only so, but when a Parliamentary by- election occurs the candidates are promptly I 1 si wjujiueu regarumg tneir views on compulsory national service, and whoever favours the idea is at once denounced as a couscriptionist, and every sort of trickery and abuse is used to prejudice his candidature. Take Kendal, for instance.

On the day before that election the Manchester Guardian," in a leading article, gravely warned its readers that they must vote against Colonel Weston because he was an advocate of Lord Roberts's scheme, which meant that every young man on reaching the age of 18 would be dragged from his home to do three years' continuous military training in barracks, to the groat detriment of both his moral and physical welfare. Then in the Altrincham division, Lord Emmott, speaking in support of Mr. Kay-Shutfleworth, informed his hearers that compulsory service, as advocated by Lord Roberts, was only a cover under which to procure a conscript army for use on the Continent. These articles and speeches are not the work of people who are ignorant of the subject, and thus liable to mistakes. These things are done by men weli posted in the aims of the National Service League, and consequently their statements are not mere misrepresentations, but utterly unscrupulous statements, devoid of truth.

A LIBERAL'S OBJECTION. Mr. Anderson mentioned a recent speech by Mr. F. D.

Acland at Rochdale and another by Mr. Percy Illingworth at the Manchester Reform Club, and eaid that though these politicians were high up in the ranks of the Government they had not the slightest right to speak, as it were, for the Liberal party when they condemned compulsory service. as a Liberal, strongly object," Mr. Anderson said, to the utterances of such men being accepted as representative of the ideas of the purest and clearest minds in the Liberal party." During the Altrincham by-election he became so disgusted with the contemptible tactics adopted against Mr. Hamilton because he had declared himself in favour of compulsory service that he went to one of Mr.

Hamilton's meetings and, as a Liberal, gave an address on national service. "So 1 had," fie went on, the opportunity oi refuting from a Unionist platform the gross misrepresentations regarding national service put forth dailv bv Mr. mrl j. very probably as prompted by their allies the "Manchester Guardian" ami t.h anrl thA Vininr, News The latter paper, one niirht during the election, published a paragraph statin? that. Lord Roberts advocated a Continuous training.

of three years for every young man, and gave immediately after a note of all the conscript armies of Europe with the service times. Now that was not dQne in ignorance, but quite the reverse. With such unscrunulona these it is useless simply to feel a deep contempt Csw That 1 I. ..1 i iiciya nieir game, as silence on our part is taken for weakness and inability to reply. My stron? that the day for that is past, and it behoves every good supporter of the National Service uca6ucw ini utn wim an iorce at his command whenever such attacks are made OnW by doing so is it possible to counteract the evil effects of such attacks.

(Hear, hear.) MR. T. C. HORSFALL'S COUNTER-ATTACK Mr. I.

C. Horsfall said he agreed with the Chairman that they must answer the false charges brought against the League. I have never (he proceeded) done anything more reluctantly than wiat I am about to do now. But the attacks which have been persistentlv made on the objects and purposes of the National Service League by several newspapers, of which the most important, and therefore the most harmtui, is tne "Manchester Guardian," call for reply. We are accused of being engaged in a conscriptionist conspiracy, which is a charge cf being enemies of the nation and also fools.

I am reluctant to attack the Manchester Guardian," because I think that on' the whole it is one of the best papers in existence. It has been a strong friend of nearly all the causes that I have been roost interested in, and it has been especially tolerant towards myself in publishing vast numbers cf communications from me over the last forty years. But reluctant as I am to make a counter-attack on the Manchester Guardian," I fee! that it is simmy nnpossiDie ioi auyuiK iio -n responsible position to abstain. The Man-I Chester Guardian is, in my opinion, attacking the interests of the country as well as our ewa YOUTHFUL INTRUDERS' POLITE WITHDRAWAL. The buildings whose burning has been attributed to suffragettes have always been unoccupied.

At Doncaster yesterday a curious story was told of the elderly housekeeper of a country villa discovering in the night that the house had been entered by a youthful couple equipped with firelighters and paraffin. Surprised by finding someone in the houso, the man and tho girl expressed their regret and withdrew. A local journalist, 19 years of age, was making a professional inquiry at the police office when he was identified by the housekeeper as one of the intruders. Yesterday the youth, who pleaded not guilty, was remanded in custody. For the defence it was stated tliat the first duty of suffragettes on a mission of destruction is to examino every room and ascertain that the building is empty.

An unoccupied house in Wiltshire, which cost 14,000 to build, was yesterday morning destroyed by fire. Suffragettes are suspected iu uo responsiDie. A STORY OF SURPRISES AT DONCASTER. At the Doncaster Borough Police Court yesterday, Harry Johnson, 19, a local journalist, was charged with being on enclosed premises for an unlawful purpose with intent to set fire to a dwelling-bouse, Westfield Villa, which stands in its own grounds off the Balby Eoad. The accused pleaded not guilty.

Chief Constable Adams, in applying for a remand, stated that on Monday, about half an hour after midnight, the housekeeper of West-field, Miss Beecrof an old lady 72 years of age, heard the breaking of glass and someone walking about. She lit a candle and went to the where she saw a young man and a young woman near the bottom. She asked them what they were doing there, and the young man replied We are suffragettes. We thought this house was empty. We are sorry t-o have disturbed you.

We did not think there was anybody on the premises." She replied that they had better get outside quick. They then said: "If we go down you must come and let us out." bho followed them down the stairs and showed them out of the back door. When Miss Bcccroft first saw them, continued Mr. Adams, the young man was carrying the box produced and the young lady was carrying the net bag produced. After they had left she saw them conceal, the parcels in the shrubbery.

She returned to her room, and at six o'clock she sent for the police. The net bag contained firelighters. Tho can, also produced, contained about two gallons of paraffin, and there were two rolls of cotton wool. In the box were a number of newspapers. A piece of brown paper smeared with some sticky substance was also found, and adhering to it were pieces of glass.

On the back of the paper was the address of a lady well known to people in the town. On Tuesday afternoon, the Chief Constable proceeded, while Miss Beecroft was in the police office, the prisoner Johnson called to make an inquiry. The lady recognised him, and later obtained a warrant. He was arrested in the evening -when in the sompany of a well-known suffragette. Miss Beecroft, who bore out the Chief Con stable's statement, said that the young lady was slim, with her hair hanging down her back When the witness asked her for her name and address, the girl said: "We don't give it; we are suffragettes." Did they tell you what they were going to lo? I asked.

"What have vou got in the box?" and they said, if I would go out with them they would show me, and I replied, Then go down. The two people expressed their regret. Detective Sergeant Dixon said that when the prisoner was charged he replied, I plead not guilty." Mr. G. W.

Andrews, who defended, applied for bail. The defendant, he said, had been on the staff of one of the local papers for some time, and Ins work was very higfily appreciated. He did not think that any suggestion would be made that he would attempt to evade the ends of justice, and his would offer substan tial nail. Mr. Adams: I object.

Probably when he comes before the Court on Monday a more serious charge of felony will be preferred against him. If it "had not been for the old lady being roused in time very likely there would have ben a charge of murder. Mr. Andrews said in the whole history of this movement there had never been a case of incendiarism where people had been in occupation of the premises, and his instructions were that it was a first duty on the part of these people to ascertain by inspection of every room that no person occupied the place. The prisoner was remanded in custody till Monday.

A 14,000 HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE. SUFFRAGETTES SUSPECTED. Westwood, an unoccupied mansion near Brad-ford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, was yesterday completely gutted by fire. The fire was discovered in the early hours of the morning, but by the time the local fire brigade arrived the building was one mass cf flames. There was no water available, and in less than an hour only bare walls remained standing.

In a wheelbarrow which was found on the lawn was a copy of the Suffragette held down by a spade, with a message, For damages apply Runciman, Trowbridge," typewritten across the paper. Several cans of oil were found on the premises. It is thought that the building was fired in several places, as the whole of tho house became ablaze almost simultaneously. The property belongs to a widow and cost nearly 14,000 to erect. Less than half the cost is covered by insurance.

When the caretaker visited the premises on Tuesday everything was in order. No arrest has been made. A Bath correspondent telegraphs that the words on the paper found in the wheelbarrow suggest that the fire was an act of revenge by suffragettes for the treatment they received at a farmers' meeting addressed by Mr. Runciman at Trowbridge on Tuesday afternoon. Several suffragettes disguised as country women obtained admission to the meeting, but were ejected.

DYE PLACED IN BRADFORD RESERVOIRS. A CURIOUS OUTRAGE. The keeper at the Chellow Dene reservoirs of the Bradford Corporation yesterday morning found a small area of the water in the lower reservoir of a deep purple hue, and the surrounding surface tinged with blue. He at once shut off the water outlet and communicated with the waterworks engineer, Mr. James Watson.

A number of paper bags and a lady's Dorothy handbag were recovered from the water and wer found to contain' a chemical dye which is in common use in local dyehouses. Dead fish were also noticed. The coloured water was removed by pumping, and in a few hours the diffusion of the dye left the water its natural colour. An attempt had also been made to discolour the water in the top reservoir, but the quantity of dye used was smaller. The lower reservoir contains 31 million gallons and the upper 45 million gallons.

It is calculated that at least ten pounds of dye must have been used. The city analyst, Mr. F. W. Richardson, has analysed the contents of the bags found, and says that in view of the immense volumes of water in the reservoirs the dye can have no injurious enects on consumers.

as a pre- raiitiouatv measure, however, none of the I affected water is to be used for domestic pur STJFI'RAGETTE'S RUSH OX TO THE COURSE. BADLY INJURED BY THE KING'S HOESE. JOCKEY'8 NARROW ESCAPE. EXTRAORDINARY SEQUEL TO THE RACE. FAVOURITE DISQUALIFIED.

Tlio long history of the Derby Stakes contains no record of a race so full of painful excitement as that which was decided at F-som yesterday. Just as the horses were afratter.liam Corner Miss Emily Wilding Davison, a militant suffragist, rushed on to tho course and threw up her hands in iroiit of ojio of tho last horses, the King's celt. Aumer. She was knocked down and so aeiiously that her life is in peril, wiiiio tho horse turned a somersault and fell H. Jones, the jockey, who was also hurt, but not seriously.

In the meantime a desperate struggle for virtorv wa being fought out near the between the favourite, Craganour, ctiNi'ier nained Aboyeur, who had made the from the start, and the third fav ourite, l.diivois, wlio had nearly come up ir, tlm loaders in ihe last furlong. Keitf on tho favourite ju.st squeezed home a head in front of the outsider, who in turn beat Louvuis ty a neck. Hut tho rejoicings over 'wnnotir's victory wero short-lived, for within a few minute, although no objection wss linked by tho rider or owner of Aboyeur, tho stewards had on tiieir own initiative a swift court-martial, and presumably cn tho ground of humping had disqualified tho and awarded tho race to the otr.sitlor. The thus went to Aboyeur, IiTnm and Great Sport, vih'- had come in fourth, was placed third. This is the first time' a Derby winner ha6 lei disqualified, if one exeepts tho caso of IJunnlng Rein who came in first for the race about seventy years ago but turned out to be a who had been fraudulently oi'orod.

The Derby, of course, is a race to three-year-olds. Keitf, who rode tho disqualified horse, is om the American jockeys who came over to Erjdnnd about a dozen years ago in the wiio of the extraordinarily successful Tod lie was then a boy, and many Manchester racegoers will remember how the little fellow used to adopt the most extreme form ci tho American Miat." lying right forward on the horse's neck, and scarcely seeming to touch the saddle all. This method of riuinu; was much ridi ruled at- first, but its success soon led to its adoption in a more or less inodiihd form by nearly all tho jockeys. Its one disadvantage is that the jockey is less able to control his mount than when seated in the saddle, and perhaps this is the reason why Keiff was Md to have offended yesterday. At a lato hour last night it was reported tha, Miss Davison was still unconscious, and that her condition was critical.

THE INJURED SUFFRAGETTE. EYE-WITNESS'S ACCOUNT OF THE INCIDENT. "They had just got round the Corner, and all had passed but tho King's horse, when a woman squeezed through the railings and ran out into the course. She mado straight for Annier. and made a sort of leap for the reins.

I think she got hold of them, but it was imp-ssibU. to say. Anywav the horse oer over, ami then thev all came down in a bunch. They were "all rolling together on the ground. Tho jockev fell wunuio horse, and struck the ground with "i-e toot in tne stirrup, hut ho rolled free MWW t() tumble Tj)e horse fell on tho woman, and kicked out tunous.y.

and it was sickening to see his uoo strike her repeatedly. It all happened a flash. Hcfore we had timo to it it was over. The horse stranded to its teot-. don't think it was hurt, but the jmv ana the woman lay on the srrormH lae ambulance men came running up, put vn Mrctciiers, and earned them away.

aey were far aliead. It was a terrible Tins was an ti i uiven t-o ma nt8 a representative of the Manchester wansian ') by a man who was standing -nu the rails quite near to the place where woman rushed out. It conflicts in some 1 descriptions given by other people crowd at the Corner. o.ner version has it that the woman did come from behind the rails, but had aged to stay outside when the m-n Ttn tJl6 Cmree and con- herself by crouching down, and that I ran towards the horse bending low with- yrmg to seize tlie reins. account agree that she was struck rz by kZ.

ftins feU UP her. The 10 ono man "flew from the horse' ioJl a f10116 a it was tecr0 ow 10 taU taat he was not far Piously injured. The Jockey's Wonderful Escape. ls't th Iast of the Btring the idtk 1 was JIr- Bronson's Agadir seemed as if it must by its mere size swarm over tho course. The Police and the Multitude.

Tho Frenchman had never seen such a crowd, and I could tell him that no Englishman had seen the Downs so packed. When he had timo to attend to detail, what struck him was tho wonderfully automatio discipline of tho people. A handful of police, doing nothing in particular, were sufficient to manage a crowd big enough to populate a city. He simply could not believe until he saw the miracle performed that six mounted policemen strolling their horses up the courso could wipe it clear in ten minutes. And he was positively anxious when he saw men and women picnicking at tho Corner on the turf where the racers were due in a quarter of an hour.

It all seemed incredibly to him. Wandering about the Downs, I found he was impressed as much by what we allowed to be done as by our habit of keeping ourselves in order. The gipsies, for instance. There they were full in tho sight of tho Royal box bawling their primitive invitations. Ho opened his eyes wide at the sight of their children, with weather-bleached hair, running about among the helter-skelter of motors.

At the other end of the scale, ho was filled with awe when I pointed out a very gilded young peer perched on the top of a penny 'bus. Derby-day, I fear, gave him an exaggerated sense of our democratic ways, for he could not realise that, although all the classes seemed jumbled in wild confusion, the invisible barriers were high all tho time. There was a pleasing reminiscence for him of tho Victorian manners of Frith's picture in the sight of women in old shawls wheedling money out of motor partie1-. The skies joined in tho riot with a crowd of kites and a balloon that dropped a parachutist into a jungle of etiarauancs. ooon arter tne nrst race a great spout of flame rose in tho midst of tho tipsters' bootlis.

We ran thither, and the Frenchman was horrified to hear that the crowd had attacked a "weLsher" and set a light to his paraphernalia. He becamo a little afraid of us. We had a good view of the King chatting with friends under tho clock. In a box in the great stand two gorgeous Indian officers looked down on the tumult with faces as if carved out of old ivory. The Start.

I took him to the Corner for the first race, so that he might get tho fiercest sensation Epsom has to give the swirling rush of the horses down the hill. A beautiful bunch of horses," his exclamation may be translated, as he saw them shoot by, flogging the baked earth with their hoofs. We climbed the lip of the Downs to see the start of the great race. Here you are at the narrow neck of the horseshoe course, the paddock quite near across the peopled valley. They came out, as careless, to all appearance, as if the jockeys were out for a stroll, wending down through a lane of worshippers and up to the starting nlnee.

which is like a bit of a leafv'lnnA The manoeuvring for the 6tart took "a long time, for some of the horses tried to set out to win the Derby wrong end first, but it was all tensely silent. A man a little ahead did methine with a red flag, the raised well above the jockeys' heads, and they were off. loud yelping roar from the course t.wn minutes later told us they were getting near the end. We saw the stand as a pinkish expanse, the faces all stiffly set one way. An Outsider After All! The last hundred yards were beautifully clear to us through glasses, and we had no doubt at all that Craganour, with the violet-capped jockey, was winning anyhow," and that a horse no one knew anything about was next.

The London evening papers supplied the sensational news to Epsom when the multitude was still happily steeped in the delusion of a favourite's win. An outsider's Derby after all! The crowd began to buzz angrily like ten thousand hives. Through the middle of the perturbed mob a trainer walked one of the racers. Not the biggest expert there knew or cared what horse he was a name on the board was everything now. A few onlookers who had no money distractions watched him pass patched with sweat, fagged out, and with a wild and suffering 10.

woman just missed 5 gadir and Earl was the only jockey.