The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-26
ALLIRELANDIS
 IN THE GRIP OF
 BRITISH ARMY
Riots Break Out With Shooting by Police in Various Towns-Men and Women Knee1 In side Brixton Prison Where MacSwiney's Body Lies.

London, Oct. 26.-The death of an- other Sim Fein hunger striker, Joseph Murphy, in Cork jail, 15 hours after the death of Terence MacSwiney, has aroused feeling in Ireland to a high pitch and the whole country was to- day under the greatest armed guard or British soldiers and policemen in it's history
 Firing broke out in Cork during the nlgnt Men wearing the uniform of British policemen motored to the cen ter of the city and fired a vol1ey of 30 shots which smashed many shop win dows, according to a dispatch from that city. There were many persons Tn the streets. They were thrown into panic by the shooting. The Harbor Board at Cork had placed the flag at nalf-mast in honor of the memory of Lord Mayor MacSwiney but British | the flag entirely.
 Two civilians were killed in an out oreak at Thurles. and another was wounded. According to information from that town. the civilians were held up by masked men wearing Brite ish uniforms.
 There was a serious situation at Belfast where rioting had broken out | late Monday, causing the death of one person. Several others were wounded Tn Tn clashes between Orangemen and l Republicans.
 .p5y Heavy forces of British soldiers and
 Black and Tam policemen have been moved to strategic positions through out Ireland, ready for an emergency
 The body of Terence MacSwiney re- plain glass-topped coffin. Outside in the streets crowds gathered but were
 Kept moving by the great force of 500
 ioot and mounted police on duty. Men and women drew back frop,
 the police lines and dropped to their knees in prayer.
 The Home Office announced that 1 tom OrrOW. Under the Inc
 quest must take place within twenty
 four hours after death Of the person over whom it is to be held, but the
 Home Office delayed official action in this case in hope that public feeling would abate in the meantime. The Central News is authority for
 the statment that all the members of Dail Eirmann (the Sim Fein Parlia- ment, have signified their intention , of coming to London from Ireland , for the MacSwiney funeral services. = body was established in Brixton jail and members of the family took
 turns in watching at the coffin. John
 MacSwiney, the brother who was
 with the Lord Mayor when the latter
 died Monday morning, and his two
 sisters, Annie and Mary, sat by the
 coffin or knelt at it's foot in prayer. The three Sim Fein hunger strik- CTS who have given up their lives for
 Irish freedom are:
 Terence ,Macswiney, who died in
 
 tyfourth day of his self imposed ] fast. .
 1 Michael Fitzgerald, who died in i the Cork jail in the sixty eighth day : of his hunger strike.
 Joseph Murphy, who died in Cork ? jail after a hunger strike of seventy six days.
 I Whether MacSwiney's body will be
 taken to Ireland for burial was noI
 certain today. Sim Fein leaders de- Q sire to have@the body taken first to Dublin to rest in state before a pub
 lie funeral is held at Cork, the Lord , Mayors home town.
 Inquiries which have been made , of members of the family on be- l half of the government regarding
 the arrangements for the funeral o1
 Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork
 have been interpreted by Father 7 Dominic, the late lord mayors pri. vate chaplain as an indication thai | there will be no interference witf
 the family's plans and that the body \ will be turned over to them fmme- s diately after the inquest This. the = home office states, will be held We'd e nesday morning.
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