New-York tribune., 1920-09-13
Mayor of Cork Described
i'm State of Extreme Ex-
haustion ON Thirty-6rst
Day of Hunger Strike
10000 Unite i'm
Glasgow Protest
Government Grants Re-
view of Case Against
American Held i'm Prison

LONDON, Sept. ia bulletin issued
early this evening by the Gaelic League
announced that Lord Mayor MacSwiney
Of Cork, who is on a hunger strike ir
Brixton Jail, was much worse, and that
the patient was in very great pain
This was the thirty-frst day since he
has taken food.
The bulletin issued at noon said Mr.
MacSwiney had passed slightly better
night, during which he had a little
sleep. He was described as still being
in a state of extreme exhaustion, but
conscious. At 2 o'clock this afternoon
it was announced that the patient had
taken turn for the worse.
Father Dominic, MacSwiney's private
chaplain, paid his usual visit to the
prisoner during the day.
According to The Evening Telegram
the Irish Office contemplates no change
in the policy of the government toward
MacSwiney or Ireland generally.
Family at Bedside All Day
Mrs. MacSwiney when she left Brix-
ton prison early this evening, after
visiting her husband, told the CORE
spondents that the Lord Mayors con-
dition was practically unchanged since
the afternoon and that he was still
suffering severe pains.
Members of the family were at the
bedside all day, and number of Wis
itors from Cork called at the prison,
but only a few Of them were admitted
Mrs. F. Sheehy Skeffngton, whose
husband was executed at Dublin, talked
with some of the relatives within the
prison, but did not see the Lord Mayor
Ten thousand persons participated
in a demonstration in Glasgow this
afternoon in protest against Mac
Swiney's imprisonment A similar
gathering was held at Bermondsey.
Hearing for Cork Strikers
CORK, Sept. IL (By The Associated
Press) Harold Barry, former High
Sheriff of Cork, who has been striving
to save the lives of some of the hunger
strikers here, received a message from
the Irish Office, London, late to-day
asking him to meet Immediately with
the heads of police in Cork to review
the governments case against Sean
Hennessy and Joseph Murphy, the lat
ter claiming American citizenship, and
any others in connection with new evil
dence which may be produced.
Barry is searching the city for q
young friend of hcnncssy. who has
asserted he can prove a complete alibi
for the dying hunger striker. Barry
says he hopes to obtain the release of
several other prisoners tonight if wit
nesses are found.
Henncssy Still Unconscious
Seven of the eleven hunger strikers
in Cork Jail appeared to-day to be in
a critical condition. They are Sean
Hennessy, Joseph Murphy, Thomas Don
ovan, Michael Burke, Upton, Power and
Kenny.
Hennessy still was unconscious to-
day, and the others were so weak that
they were hardly able to articulate.
Murphy has troublesome cough, which
nuns to do anything to alleviate.
Michael Hennessy, brother of Sean
Hennessy, showed the correspondent a
slip of paper to-day, apparently made
by multigraph machine, which he
said, he had taken from lamppost on
q street leading to the Jail early this
morning. The paper reads:
Warnings of Reprisals Posted
"In some districts loyalists and
members of his majesty's forces have
read notices threatening the destruc-
tion of their houses in certain even
Qualities. Under these circum stance 8
it has been decided that for every 10y
alist house so destroyed the house of q
republican leader will be similarly
dealt with. 1t is naturally to be hoped
that the necessity for sUch reprisals
will not arise, and, therefore this
warning of punishment, which will fol-
low any destruction of loyalist houses,
is being widely circulated"
According to young Henncssy, similar
warnings were posted during the early
morning in various parts of Cork on
lampposts, signboards and dead walls.
The correspondent again was per-
mtted this morning to enter the Jail
and talk with the governments physi-
clans. He found that the physicians
themselves were suffering from the eff
fects of the severe strain they are un-
der. He also learned the four nuns
who in pairs arc on duty day and night
and the prison chaplain are on the point
Of breakdown due to their unceasing
vigils at the bedside of the hunger
strikers. Dr.. Pearson, it was learned,
had had no sleep for forty-eight hours.
The physicians to-day confirmed that
John Hcnnessy, father of young Hem
messy, had altered his decision to per-
nit the nuns to endeavor to keep his
SON alive. His change of mind came
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