Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-07
PREMIER OFFERS
TO FREE M'SW|NEY
Murder of Police in Ireland
Must Cease, Reported to Be
Lloyd Georges Terms
SECRET FEEDING DENIED
Ry the Associated Press

London. Sept. "A dispatch to the
London Times from Licgc. Switzerland.
quotes David Lloyd George. the British
prime minister. as saying that II guar
antees are given that the murder OF
policemen in ireland will cease the pre-
mier is convinced that Lord Mayor Mac
Swiney and the other hunger strikers
will be released from prison.
Other special dispatches tend to con-
firm the interview printed in the Times
According to the Times, the premier
said that not a single one of the deluge
of appeals for clemency offered the
slightest assurance that such killings
would be stopped. He added that the
unconditional release of the imprisoned
men would be disastrous to the morale
Of the Irish police and make government
in Ireland impossible.
MacSwiney was reported appreciably
weaker this morning. but conscious and
able TO speak. Father DomiSic, private
chaplain to MacSwiney. said the pris-
oner was suffering intense pain in the
left side of his abdomen and in the
heart.
Answers Lloyd George
Regarding the statement made by
Premier LLOYD George indicating that
Mayor MacSwiney probably would be
released IL guarantees were given that
the murders of police in Ireland would
cease. Father Dominic said the mayor
had no authority to make any promise
for the cessation Of murders in Ireland,
as he was only an individual Sim
Feiner.
III the government is satisfied that
murders are taking place Father
Dominic added, why doesn't it capture
the murderers and execute them!
In message to sympathizors with
Mayor MacSwiney in America, Mrs,
MacSwiney today said:
II wish to express to all the Irish
people and many sympathizers with Ire
lands cause in America my deepest op-
preciation of the messages and cable
grams l have received from them ever
since nv husband started hunger strik-
ing. twenty FIVE days ago. In contrast
with those among the English people
who proclaim themselves sympathetic to
elementary justice being done to my
husband and who content themselves
with words and appeals. Ireland
sympathizers in America have takel
their line of action in an economic boy
colt as shown in the withdrawal %
policies from English insurance com
! panieS ana rctuSal 10 hhhult EhS'"'
shipping. This is likely, to bring hom
to the minds of Lloyd George and IN
English Government what may be III
effect throughout the world of the doin
to death of my husband in an Englis
Jail.
Mrs. MacSwiney Defiant
Mrs. MacSwiney, speaking to IN
Associated Press correspondent wit
composure and a rather defiant back
ward toss of the head, declared thl
morning: !.
yes. I am positive he will see HI
task through. OF course, it is only hi
conviction he is fighting for, the idef
that has enabled him to survive. l al
fully reconciled 10 hearing of his deatf
His battle is mine. for it is one too
on myself when married him thrt
wears ago while he was in Eng Ian
under a deportation order. Our liv,
since then have been mainly spent
eyading my husbands arrest or waitir
to be reunited through his release fro
prison Thus, the role now am play
ing il one to which I have long bee
accustomed"
. Mrs. MacSwiney concluded with Il
j same outward show of cheerfulness al
I resignation