30 MARCH 1912, Page 3

Last Saturday's papers contained a telegram from Shanghai which shows

in an amusing way that the women suffragists of China have already adopted " militant " methods. Renter's correspondent states that a number of the women were dis- satisfied with the lukewarm and abstract expression of approval of woman suffrage lately passed by the National Assembly. On Friday week, therefore, "they invaded the Assembly House, broke the windows, mauled the guards, and finally terrorized the members of the Assembly themselves, although the latter had meanwhile sent for soldiers for their protection, into reopening the discussion on the female suffrage question."