New-York tribune., 1920-10-20
Bonar Law Gives Policy
of Government in Reply
to Malone's Demand for
His Attitude on Reprisals
Mention of Issues
Stirs Commons
Two Brothers Executed bv
Black and Tans lin Tip
perary; M'SwineyW orse
By Frank GETTY

Copyright. 1920. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Oct. 19.-An inkling of
the storm which probably will break
IN Parliament tomorrow when the gov
ernment's Irish policy comes up for de-
bate was had this afternoon when
Colonel Estrange Malone, a Liberal
from East Leyton and a prominent
supporter of the Bolsheviki, asked An
drew Bonar Law, the spokesman for
Lloyd George, whether it was the in
tention of the government to continue
its policy of murder and reprisal in
Ireland.
Conflicting cries of "Answer!" and
shouts of "Shame!" sent the House of
Commons into a temporary pandemo-
MUM.
When the uproar had subsided Bonar
Law said that the governments policy
was to put down murder and to pro-
ceed with its Home Rule measure.
Two Brothers Executed
Sir Hamar Greenwood, the Irish Sec
retary, reviewed the attacks made in
Ireland on the police and the military,
and said the government was seeking
TO put OOWN Cne OlSOIQcTS.
Whatever the governments policy as
outlined tomorrow proves to be, the
Black and Tans to-day continued to
carry out the reprisals in Ireland. Two
Sim Feiners, brothers, sons of a
County Tipperary farmer named
O'Dwyer, were taken from their home
at midnight last night and executed
before the eyes of their mother and
sisters. This apparently was in full
fillment of the recent Black and Tans's
promise to kill two Sim Feiners for
every policeman shot.
The Black and Tans in moto1 lorries 9
to- day descended on the town of Dro-
gheda, firing volleys through the streets
and into the houses, terrorlzing the
inhabitants, but injuring no one except
one former policeman, who was killed.
At Ballygar the police are alleged
to have called Patrick Doyle, a prom
inent Republican leader, to the door
of his home and to have shot him dead.
MacSwiney Much Worse
Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of
Cork, who to-day passed the sixty
eighth day of his hunger strike in
Brixton prison, has refused to drink
the fruit juices prescribed for him by
the prison physicians to check the
scurvy which it is believed he has con-
tracted. The prisoner was much worse
to day.
LONDON, Oct. 10 (By The Associated
Press) Edward Shortt, Home Secre-
tary, when questioned in the House of
Commons to-day with regard to the
possible release of Lord Mayor Mac
Swiney of Cork, declared the govern
ment had not altered its policy that
convicted men, or those awaiting trial
for serious offenscs, would not be re
leased because of hunger strikes. All
the men now striking came within this
category, the Home Secretary de-
clared. Michael Fitzgerald, who died
in Cork jail, added Mr.. Short, was
charged with murder and there was
decisive evidence against him.
The Home Secretary asserted that
none of the prison authorities had fed
Lord Mayor MacSwiney.
CORK, Oct. 19.-The condition of the
Irish hunger strikers in the Cork jail
has become worse on the whole as the
result of depression among the men
caused by the death Sunday of Michael
Fitzgerald, first of the eleven to sue
cumb. Joseph Murphy, who was very
low Monday, has rallied as the result
of medical treatment, but his case is
still regarded as the most critical.
Severe collapses were suffered by
two of the strikers, Donovan and Ken
ny. early this morning. Sean Hen
messy, Reilly and Upton are also in a
critical state.
Funeral of Hunger Striker
To prevent Irish Volunteers march
ing in the funeral procession of Fitz-
gerald when his body was removed this
afternoon from the church here tc
F'ermoy, large force of military sur
rounded the church and six lorry loads
Of soldiers and an armored car fell in
behind the mourners' carriages follow
ing the coffin.
In the business streets through which
the procession passed great indignation
was expressed among the people at the
military display, feverish excitement
prevailing.
Volunteers in long rows, holding
hands, lined Patrick Street on both
sides to make path for the funeral.
A dramatic scene was enacted in the
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