New-York tribune., 1920-09-16
British Press
Assails Ar11liing
OF Obstetrics
''Nlonstrous PROPOSAL Said
to Leave No Hope CT Re.
habilitating Shaken Credit
of Government i'm Erin
Sinn Fein Attack Denied
Lord Mayor MacSwiney's
Condition Much Worse,
Says His Wife's Report
By Frank Getty
From The 7'r!ounc's European Bureau


Copyright 1920. New York Tribune Inc
LONDON, Sept. 15-The Pail Mall
Gazette prints a emi-official statement
saying that there has been no change
in the governments policy toward Ire
land since Premier Lloyd Georges last
speech in the House of Commons and
declaring that there is absolutely no
truth in the statement that "thc gov
ernment intends to smash the republi-
can movement in five weeks"
The newspaper points out that the
Irish republic admittedly is a rebel
institution and therefore it obviously
is the objectt and duty of the Irish
executive to suppress it.
A statement of this sort, in answer
to obviously exaggerated Sim Fein
charges, is taken as .an indication that
the government feels none too COM
Portable over the storm of resentment
occasoned by the announcement of its
intention to arm Ulster volunteers
and IT'S refusal to release the hunger
MacSwiney. The government, it is
said, places much Importance upon the
work of the Irish peace conference.
Policy in Ulster Condemned
The Westminster Gazette is unchari-
table in its comment.
THE government" it says, "now def
nitely abandons all pretencc about its
Irish policy and allows it to appear
first and last as the policy of Ulster.
One-time rebels now become officially
authorized policemen. Anything more
monstrous than this arrangement is
difficult to imagine. If the government
desire to give final proof of Sir Ed
ward Carson's control of its Irish pol
icy it could not have taken more
convincing step"
arming of the Ulsterites, says:
This seems to US to be the most
outrageous thing which the government
has ever done in Ireland. This mons
trous proposal will arm the very peo-
pie who have been looting Catholic
shops and driving thousands Of Catho-
lie women and children from their
homes. If it is too late to stay the
execution which this incredible order
will almost certainly entail, there is
no hope left of rehabilitating the shak-
en- credit of the British government in
Ireland"
Military Patrol Kills Three
There was a shooting aNray at Bal
lluIOuSN tO-uaS. ne OlHclll version
of the clash says that a military pa
troll found a party of men raiding
vacant police barracks. They fired
upon them, killing two and mortally
wounding another.
1t is announced that the workers of
Dublin are to raise fund for the
benefit of Catholic workers driven from
employment in Belfast.
Reports Macswiney Decidedly Worse
LONDON, Sept. Is (By The Associ-
ated Press). A bulletin issued late
this afternoon by the Irish Self-De-
termination League says:
Mrs. MacSwiney. who has just visit
ed Brixton prison, says that she fnds
the condition of Lord Mayor MacSwiney
decidedly worse this afternoon. For the
first time she noticed his eyes were
very dull and he was suffering much
pain in both the head and the body"
This was the thirty-fourth day Mac
Swiney has been on hunger strike.
Annie MacSwiney said her brother
had had four hours sleep during the
night, and that, although he was in
great pain and growing weaker, he was
much refreshed by this rest.
Mayor MacSwiney is still being mas
saged, but his sister declared she was
convinced nothing was being given him
which could act as nourishment. She
said he was as determi.:;. as ever to
carry out his VOW to the end for the
sake of the freedom of Ireland. He
showed no signs of wavering, and only
the day previous had said to the nurse
when she offered him food:
"Do you think Pm going to give way
after my long hunger s:rike?"
Little change in the condition Of Nc
Swiney was reported this morning by
the physician of Brixton Prison. In his
report to the Home Office, however, the
physician declared Increased weak
ness" was noticeable.