The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
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Mass j George's Cathedral
To Over Remains Of
Lord Mayor Mac
SWiney.
TO IRELAND TOMORROW
Friday Proclaimed as Day Of Mourn
ing When All Business Is to
Suspend for Few
Moments.
TO IRELAND TOMORROW
tBy Lloyd Allen, United Press Staff
COrreSnnndant

| lBy Lloyd Allen, United Press Stan
Correspondent
LONDON, Oct. 2S.--Guarded by Sim
Fein soldiers, the body of Terence
lMacSwiney lay in state today in St.
Georges cathedral IN Southwark. The
casket was banked high with oral Of
! ferings.
| The body of the late lord mayor of
| Cork who died of starvation in Brix-
| ton prison after hunger strike or
tseventy-four days, was carried into
i the cathedral yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by delegation of Sim
Feiners and friends from Ireland.
/! Until midnight a constant stream OF
visitors flowed past the casket to gaze
! through the glass paneled lid at the
,enlaciated features of the lord mayor
| When the doors were closed at mid
night there sill remained large crowds
who had been unable to enter.
| Police offered no interference.
Funeral services today began with
mass at eleven a. M, celebrated by
Arch Bishop Manix, with the assist
ance of three bishops At two o'clock
procession was to leave the church
! for the Euston station. The body
will be taken to Holyhead, starting at
1880 tonight and transferred to mail
boat, reaching Dublin early Friday
morning.
| An advance guard of Sim Feiners,
not in uniform, and a band OF Irish
pipers will head the procession.
Following them will be MacSwiney's
body in a motor hearse.
! Next in line will be members of the
| family. to be followed by representa-
tives of the Irish parliament, Irish
municipal bodies and other organiza-
tions, including London Sim Fein
clubs. Mounted police will accompany
the procession. Displays of the Slnn
Fein flag and colors were not for
bidden.
| MacSwiney will be accorded the
honors of ruler in Ireland. Ihe
| Irish parliament has proclaimed FIJI
day a day of mourning.
| All business except that OF news
papers and public utilities will be sus-
pended. Necessary industries were
asked to suspend for a few momnets.
COLLAPSE of Widow.
| LONDON, Oct, 28.-Lady Mayoress
.MacSwiney collapsed today.
| Broken by the long vigil at the bed
side of her husband who died in a
hunger strike. Mrs MacSwiney was
mt to bed today and ordered TO re-
main there. ,
She will not be permitted to attend
the impressive funeral services of her
husband today nor to accompany the
remains to Ireland for burial, her
physician said.
Mrs. MacSwiney's endurance during
! the long fast of her husband was the
marvel of those who watched the case
She was at Brixton prison every day
and apparently always cheerful.
Even at the death of the lord mayor
she retained her composure. AT lle
inopest over MacSwiney's body she
was so cool as to disconcert the eoro
ner.
I Last night she followed the body OF
her husband to st. Georges cathedra
and took part in the simple services
that accompanied arrival there.
/ Impressive Ceremonies.
LONDON, Oct. 2S.-Strife' over gov
ernment policies was stilled momen
tarily today while tie soul Of Terence
Mac Swiney was consigned to hl'
Maker.
Sombre thousands knelt in st
/ Georges cathedral while an arci
bishop and assisting bishops intonet
i the solemn ritual. There was no dis
Tllrbance, not even a remark for tn
police, dozens of whom clustere'
4, about.
/ The Irish hunger strikers caske