27 FEBRUARY 1909, Page 3

A considerable number of militant suffragists came into collision with

the police on Wednesday in an effort to reach the House of Commons. Twenty-seven ladies were arrested, and, on refusing to pay fines and give assurances for good behaviour, received sentences of short terms of imprisonment. It is blear that what the ladies in question desire above every- thing is to draw public attention to themselves and their cause. As we believe their methods to be highly injurious to the public intereet, we do not mean to gratify them in future by notice or comment, and we sincerely wish that the daily Prose could See their voay to eimilar action. Their perfunctory scuffles with the police or grandiloquent proceedings in the Police Courts have become as wearisome aa they are offensive.