New-York tribune., 1920-09-20
Pleasure Seekers Cars
Taken by Armed Bands
i'm Mid Tyrone; Coun-
try Homes Are Searched
MacSwiney Better
After Brief Sleep
Greenwood Offers No
Hope of Government
Freeing Hunger Striker

BELFAST. Sept. 19.-With twenty
automobiles captured from weekend
pleasure seekers, Sim Feiners in mid,
Tyrone Saturday carried out one of the
biggest raids for arms in the history
OF Ireland. Early in the afternoon
when large numbers of persons were
starting on weekend tours, a body of
men armed with revolvers station ed
themselves at the entrance to Gortin
Glens, favorite drive, and held up all
motor cars, the passengers being sent
to the farmhouses adjacent.
When twenty machines had been can
tured gang of 100 masked men. all
heavily armed and led by an officer
descended from the adjoining noun
tainside and entered the cars. the
drivers of which, with revolvers at
their heads, were compelled to drive
the raiders around the country, visit
ing houses in search of arms,
Greenwood Answers Irish Demands
Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland, has informed the mag
istrates Of County Louth that he can
hold out no hope that the British gov
ernment will reverse its decision in the
case of Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork,
on hunger strike in Brixton prison. The
magistrates recently sent communica-
ton to Sir Hamar demanding full self
government for Ireland, with powers
not less comprehensive than those en-
joyed by any dominion, and calling
Tor the immediate release of Mac
Swiney. The Chief Secretary's reply
to the magistrates says:
II can hold out no hope Of reversal
Of the decision of the government in
the case Of the Lord Mayor of Cork.
can assure you the government is
desirous of granting the fullest pos
sible measure Of self-government to
the Irish people and would welcome an
expression of moderate opinion di-
fected to the unfortunate state of
affairs"
Paper Suggests Macswiney Is Fed
LONDON, Sept. 1s.-The condition
Of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor Of
Cork, was reported as unchanged in
three bulletins issued to-day BY the
lrish Self-Determination League, al
though he appeared somewhat re-
freshed BY two hours sleep during the
night. This evenings bulletin, given
out by. the league after Mrs. Mac
Swiney's daily visit to her husband,
said che is extremely weak, but still
conscious"
Considerable talk was occasioned to-
day by paragraph appearing in The
Sunday Times under the head "Who Is
feeding Mr.. MacSwiney?" 1t says:
Everybody is asking who is feeding
him. There is no doubt at all that the
yr,1n nrf ~
any of the prison officials. 1t, is sug-
gested that his visitors. priests and
relatives are giving him sufficient food
to keep him alive"
Pointing out that Mr. MacSwiney and
the Cork hunger strikers have virtually
equalled DR.. Tanners forty-days' fast,
the paper asks how the first twelve
men to be found-Mayor MacSwiney
and the eleven in Cork-when they
tried to 60 without food could equal
DR.. Tanners record, which excited the
wonder of the world.
In reply to this Art O'Brien. of the
Irish Self-Dete erminatlon League, said
tonight "no nourishment or food OF
any kind is being given to the Lord
Mayor"
Mayor Sends Message to Irish
MacSwiney will send the following
message OH DeHaI OIL himself ana Ine
hunger strikers in Cork Jail to Irish
men throughout the world, thanking
them for their sympathy and prayers
according to The Daily Mail:
Tomorrow | shall have completed
forty days without tasting food and
though lying here helpless, my facul-
ties are as clear as ever. l attribute
this to the spiritual strength | receive
from my daily communion, bringing
me bodily strength, assisted by world
of masses and prayers.
IL believe God has directly inter
vened to stay the tragedy fora while
for a divine purpose of his own. 1t is
incredible that the people of England
will allow this callous, cold-blooded
murder to be pushed to the end.
think that God is giving them their
last chance to pause and consider, but
if their determination is to go on our
resolution was prepared from the be-
ginning and we are prepared to die"
THE fast of Dr.. Henry S. Tanner
which lasted forty days, was carried
out under the supervision of a New
York medical college in the summer of
1880. DR.. Tanner had previously ab-
stained from food for periods Of many
days, one of his efforts, unofficially re-
ported, covering a period of fortytwo
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