Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-09
MACSW|NEY' NUMB
FROM LONG FAST
Legs and Arms Massaged
Atrophy of Skin Reported
to Have Set In.

| LONDON, September (by the As
ISOLATED Press).-Lord Mayor Mac
Swiney of Cork, who is incarcerated in
Brixton prison and has been on a
hunger strike since August II. passed
very bad night. and complained
again this morning of dizziness. accord
/ ing to a bulletin issued early today by
the Irish Self-Determination League
He also experienced numbness in his
legs and arms, and a physician who
| attended him considered him much
| weaker than he was yesterday.
The lord mayor was visited last night
| by Father Patrick MacSwiney. cousin.
! who said he was surprised to find the
| prisoner so well. He expressed belief
that the crisis would not come for three
| or four days.
The noon bulletin issued by the league
stated that signs of atrophy of the
| skin had appeared. and that as con-
sequence the mayors arms were being
massaged and bandaged
Mayors Condition Grave.
| After visiting Mayor MacSwiney last
| evening the prison doctor told his sister.
Annie NsacSwiney. that her brother was
| a statement issued by the league this
| morning, and that there could be only
\ one end to his continued hunger strike.
1.-THE doctor asked Miss MacSwiney
| II nothing cOuiu &c QOIe--lI she cOuiu
| not appeal to the mayor" continued the
statement. "She replied she would not
ask her brother to give up the principle
| of his life: that England had no right
| to imprison him. and that he could not
submit to England's imprisonment with
out acknowledging her right to deprive
| him Of his liberty.
1.-THE doctor then suggested that the
republican body in Ireland be asked
to order the lord mayor to surrender,
and he. being a disciplined man.
would obey. Miss Annie said the re-
publican parliament in Ireland could
no more order her brother to give
up his fight than the English gov
eminent during the late war could
order a soldier to thrown down his
rifle and run away. She said: My
brother has not rifle in his hand.
it is true, but he has the only weapon
he can get. and he won't surrender
suggestion had reached her brothers
ears in some way and that he had
spoken of it to them. but had said:
No such order will come from the
Dali Eireann, and if it came l would not
obey it -
Personal Guarantee Unnecessary.
An inspired statement issued yes
terday indicated that Premier Lloyd
George is willing to accept guarantees
from Sim Fein headquarters that po-
lice murders will cease. and that he
does not require personal guarantee
from Lord Mayor MacSwiney.
If such guarantee is forthcoming. it
is set forth in the statement. Mac
Swiney and the hunger strikers in
Cork Jail will be released and held
as virtual hostages. and if the muir
ders are resumed they will again be
sent to Jail. thus. in effect. revert
ing to what was called the cat and
of suffragette hunger strikers.
1t is an interesting question
whether the Sim Feiners are pre-
pared to. give such an assurance as
to satisfy this requirement. Up to
the present they have insisted upon
release.
UnreIentins With Cork Strikers.
LONDON, September SIN response
to an urgent representation from
former Sheriff Barney of the county
of Cork, counseling the immediate re-
lease of the eleven untried hunger
strikers in Cork Jail. Premier Lloyd
George today sent message declar-
ing that the hunger strikers had all
been arrested "either in the act of
murderous attacks on police or SOL
diers or on clear evidence duplicating
them in such attacks. and they are
engaged in a combined effort to pre-
vent their trial and have reduced
themselves u physical
under which, a trial is legally i'm
possible.
'The government" continues the
premier, "canhot allow men charged
with such grave ofTenses to escape
trial by their own act If this were
permitted there would be an end to
any possibility of the enforcement OF
law and the administration Of JUS
tice."
In Serious Condition.
CORK. September S.-The eleven