New-York tribune., 1920-09-14

noon with her husband, on leaving the
prison at 6 o'clock tonight, said he was
weaker than when she last saw him
She had not been permitted ito speak
to him. He was conscious, but still
suffering from numbness of the limbs
Mrs. MacSwiney Makes Pleas
Mrs. MaeSwiney, wife of the Lord
Mayor, with his sisters Mary and
Annie, and his brother, Sean, has ad-
dressed an appeal to the American Am
bassador and the heads of the other
embassies and legations in London for
submission to their governments. 1t
calls attention to the case of the Lord
Mayor and that of the eleven hunger
strikers at Cork, and expresses the
hope that the United Councils Of the
nations addressed "will prevent the
tragedy now pending and thereby calm
the peoples Of the world"
The letter deals fully with Mayor
MacSwiney's case from the date of his
arrest to the present time, and says:
Lord Mayor MacCurtain was murdered
for the same reason for which Lord
Mayor MacSwiney is being murde red
now-because he was fighting for self
determination of his country. If the
present tragedy is allowed to proceed
we are confronted with the unparalleled
crime of two Lord Mayors of the same
city being murdered within six months
of each other by supposedly civilized
government"
CORK, Sept. 13 (By The Associated
Press) ).-The eleven hunger strikers
in the Cork Jail were still alive to-day
but all of them were materially
weaker. Two of the striking prisoners
Michael Burke and Kenny, collapsed
twice during the night, and their con-
dition is causing especial anxiety.
Sean Hennessy, nineteen years old
whose condition has been so grave for
several days, remains in a comatose
state. and in his semi-conscious
moments he is refusing to take the
customary quantity of water Last
night he accepted only two sips
All the strikers are becoming very
restless, which according to the
doctors is new and not reassuring
phase of their cases.
1t was learned to-day that both the
government physicians, DR.. Pearson
and DR.. Battiscombe, had received
death threats
DR.. Battiscombe showed the CORE.
spondent the following notification ad
dressed to him on September 8 on ar
official looking letterhead bearing al
the top gaelic inscription, which the
doctor was unable to translate:
"You have now taken on yourself the
responsibility for the lives or death
of eleven men on hunger strike in the
Cork jail. A responsibility which -four
doctors have already refused to accept
You are hereby notified that shoule
any of these men die in Jail, or aftel
their release, as result of this hunger
strike, we will hold you guilty of {
crime punishable by death under tn.
laws of the Irish republic. 1t will no
do for the Dublin Castle authoritie.
to say that the responsibility is solely
theirs.
"While you attend these men the re
sponsibility is yours, and if any of then
die the punishment will also be yours
Cork No. l Brigade Irish Republi
can Army"
BELFAST, Sept. 13.-Castle Lambert
House in Athenry, County Galway
| where Sir Edward Carson, the Ulste,
Unionist leader, was born, was burned
to-day, presumably by Sim Feiners.
Galway has been placed under the
curfew law, making six Irish citie.
under this law The others are Bel
fast, Dublin, Londonderry, Cork ane
Limerick, as we'll as number oi
smaller towns and villages.