New-York tribune., 1920-09-08
Lord Mayors Relatives,
Discussing Reported Of
fer for GUARANTEES, Say
He Cannot End Attacks
Wife Sends Thanks
To Friends i'm e. s.
Prisoners Condition Is
Weaker at End of 10th
Day of Hunger Strike
From The Tribune's European Bureau

Copyright 1920. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Sept. 7-At the end of
the twenty-sixth day of his hunger
strike, Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor
of Cork, to-day was in state of
mental and physical exhaustion, though
retaining consciousness. Father Domi-
mic, MacSwiney's chaplain, said he was
suffering severe pains and had grown
appreciably weaker in the last fortv-
eight hours.
A representative of the Lord Mayors
wife said that no information had been
received from the premier or the gov
ernment that MacSwiney would be re-
leased if guarantees were given that
murders of police in Ireland would
cease. Even if such an offer were
made it was said the mayor could not
promise that there would be no further
attacks on the Irish police. The Sinn
Feiners have consistently refused to
consider any proposition which would
fasten upon them responsibility for
the murders OF police or Irish officials.
Relatives of MacSwiney declare that
he will not make any form of COM
promise.
Suffers Pain in Heart
LONDON, Sept. 7 (By The Asso-
ciated Press) Father Dominic, private
chaplain to Lord Mayor MacSwney,
said to-day the patient was suffering
intense pain in the left side of his
abdomen and heart.
Regarding the reported conditional
offer Of MacSwiney's release, Father
Dominic said:
IF the government is satisfied that
murders are taking place, why doesn't
it capture the murderers and execute
them? ?"
In message to sympathizers with
Mayor MacSwiney in America Mrs.
MacSwiney to-day SAID:
81 wish to express to all the Irish
people and many sympathizers with
1reland's cause in America my deepest
appreciation of the messages and cable
grams I have received from them ever
since my husband started hunger strik-
Ing. In contrast with those among the
English people who proclaim them
selves sympathetic to elementary jus
tice being done to my husband and
who content themselves with words
and appeals, Ireland's sympathizers in
America have taken their line of action
in an economic boycott as shown in
the withdrawal of policies from Eng
lish insurance companies and re-
fusal to handle English shipping. This
is likely to bring home to the minds
of Lloyd George and the English gov
ernment what may be the effect
throughout the world of the doing to
death of my husband in an English
Jail.
Sees Hope in America
"America is more capable than any
other country at the present moment
of forcing her recent ally. England, to
conform to elementary principles of
justice regarding Ireland and | and
my husbands other relatives are
expectation that the action so far
taken in some centers in the United
States will rapidly spread through the
continent of America
Terrence MacSwiney is not sacrifice
ing himself in personal protest, but
because he realizes that his case SYM
bolizes 1rcland's case, and for the great
principle of Irish freedom he is willing
to sacrifice his life, ii need be- We
who suffer so keenly with him, seeing
his young and hopeful life gradually
ebbing from his body. are equally pre-
pared to bear our great suffering and
SorEOW lOr Cnc sake OIL tne lanu we
love-"
Mrs. MacSwiney, speaking to the
correspondent with composurc and a
rather defiant backward toss of the
head, declared:
Eyes, am positive he will see his
task through; of course, it is only his
conviction he is fighting for the ideal
that has enabled him to survive. I am
fully rcconciled to hearing of his death.
His battle is mine. for it is one I took
on myself when l married him three
years ago while he was in England
under deportation order. Our lives
since then have been mainly spent in
evading my husbands arrest or wait
ing to be reunited through his release
from prison. Thus the role now am
playing isl one to which l have long
been accustomed"
Mrs. NacSwiney concluded with an
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