Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-30
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FIGHT STAGED
OVER COFFIN,
OF M'SWINEY

HOLYHEAD, Wales, Oct. 29.-(By
the Associated Press)-Relatives of
the late Lord Mayor MacSwiney re-
sisted when the authorities started
to place the body of the lord mayor
After a fight over the coffin. how
ever, the body was taken aboard the
! vessel. which sailed for Cork.
Sisters and brothers Of the late
Lord Mayor MacSwiney Of Cork
were forcibly expelled, with other
mourners, from their railway car
riage by police as a result of the
fight over the coffin. Members of
the family objected to the coffin be-
| ing placed on board a special boat
which would go direct from this
port to Cork, and violent scene en-
sued. The fight lasted five minutes.
LONDON. Oct. 29.-The govern
ment has refused to permit the body
Of the late Lord Mayor MacSwiney,
of Cork. to be landed in Dublin and
has provided a special steamer to
convey the remains to Cork.
The reasons assigned by the gov
eminent for not permitting the body
| to be landed anywhere except in the
| lord mayors native city was "the
risk Of political demonstrations.
which might result in the loss of in
nocent lives"
M'SWINEY'S CORTEGE
is STRANGE PROCESSION
LONDON, Oct. "a little band
of Irish pipers, wailing weird
dirge and shrieking defiance by
! turns. led the strangest funeral pro-
cession that ever wound it's way
through the streets of London. a
procession of 5000 Irish ''rebels."
Sim Feiners and sympathizers, fol-
lowing the body of their dead
leader.
And of these 5000, hundreds were
prescribed outlaws" with a price
upon their heads, marching in safety
through the heart of the enemy
country, protected for once by tacit
truce between the British government
They wore their Sim Fein uni
forms beneath long overcoats They
carried, draped in black, the pro-
scribed green, white and orange flag
of the only government they recog-
nize. But there was no reply to
their mute defiance. London offered
them only respect.
For their own part, the Sim Fem
ers gave and accepted pledges that
for this one occasion there should
be no outward indication of that
everything hatred of England. never
so bitter as it is today, that burns
in Sim Fein hearts. The pledges
were kept, while soldier of the ''re-
public" and soldier of the empire CO.
operated to make the final journey
Of Terence MacSwiney, late lord
mayor of Cork, from cathedral to
railway station, an uninterrupted trib-
ute to his courage and devotion.
The funeral of Terence MacSwiney
is the most dramatic incident in the
history of the Irish revolt. Hours
before the Irish leaders emerged
from st. Georges cathedral where
impressive services had been con-
Quoted. the three miles of streets
through which the procession was to
pass, were lined deep with British
crowds.
In Gaelic Uniform
Four hundred metropolitan police
were stationed near the cathedral,
900 police lined the roads. A few
yards apart In and around the
church were hundreds of men in
gaelic uniform ready to enforce de-
corum if erection should surge out
of bounds. Two nurses, also in Sim
Fein uniform and waving large Irish
s'republic" flags, made splotch of
color on the cathedral steps.