New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Prepare for Death at ANY
Time; Cork Plans Big
Observation-Disclosures :
Country to Pay Homage
Si1ln Fein. Leaders
Oppose Reprisals
Move to Prevent Revolt 8
Prisoner Still Weaker:
Murmurs Fifth Week :?
By Frank Getty

Copyright, 1890, New York Tribune Inc
LONDON, Sept. 10.--The "Rcpublic
Ct Ireland" has given up hope for the
recovery or release of it's martyr, Ter
ence MacSwiney. The end of the moral
battle being waGed in a narrow prison
cell at BriXton, where the Lord Mayor
Of Cork lies in intense pain after TWEEN
ty-nine days of hunger strike, is be-
llcved now TO be IN s,gnt.
The Tribune correspondent learns
that the British government has been
informed that if there remains any
chance of change in its decision to
let the alderman die, action must be
taken at once
Still conscious. despite his suffering,
the 1rishman upon whom the eyes of
tn" world are fixed was reported "still
weaker" in a bulletin ISSUED at the
prison at = O'Clock this afternoon.
Barely able to speak, the prisoner,
when told that to-day was Friday,
murmured:
"The fifth week."
Ireland Prepares for Death
Throughout the South and West Of
ireland preparations are being made
tor MacSwiney's death, which is taken
1ol granted. Strange as it may seem.
the greatest underground activity is
that of the Sim F6in leaders, who are
marshaling their dependable forces
Tor definite attempt to prevent a gen.
eral outbreak and disorders and re-
prisals, if and when death comes.
Every effort will be made to have the
country pay reverence to MacSwiney
as an Irish martyr, and the funeral
services, which have been planned for
Cork. presumably with government
sanction, will be impressive in the
extreme.
When I was in Dublin and Cork last
week | heard on all sides expressions
OF opinion that the effort to prevent an
outbreak of trouble would be SUCCESS
full. The time is long past when the
country would have famed into revolt
had MacSwiney succumbed to the ef-
fects Of his hunger strike. That time
was a fortnight ago. Of course even
now the temper Of the Irish people is
difficult to gauge and the hold of the
leaders over the extremists is preca-
rious.
In Sim Fein ranks it is agreed that
reprisals will come in England, d.
rected against Cabinet Ministers them
selves and others responsible for the
failure to release the Lord Mayor.
Labor to-day refused to intervene in
the MacSwiney case to the extent Of
laying down tools as threat to force
his release. The decision was reached
at the Trades Union congress at Ports
mouth.
What the public seems to overlook in
connection with the MacSwiney case is
that now that the government appar-
emily is determined not to release him
under present conditions, the time is
rapidly approaching when starvation
and the suffering of q whole month
will render him unconscious. Then un-
doubtedly he will be removed to a hos
pital and fed. His condition then will
be pronounced too grave to permit his
return TO prison, and after a long term
in the hospital it is possible, if he
doesn't lose his sanity under such
treatment-as did Alderman Kelly-he
might be brought to trial eventually.
This outcome seems not to have en-
tered into the considerations of those
who consider the matter virtually at
an end and merely await the signal Of
death to start reprisals.
Engineer Chained to Post
lhcrc was grOCeSQue assault IN
broad daylight in the heart of Dublin
this morning upon an engine driver,
Robert Bruce, who drove munitions
train into Belfast at the time Of the
recent riots there. When he left the
station after bringing in train he
headed for q bar on the corner of
Amiens Street, where he was seized by
four men, who without Disgusting
themselves snapped Bruce's arms be-
hind his back with handouts and
fastened him to a lightpost with a
huge chain and paddock, while n Gu
rous crowd looked on. A placard
bearing the word "scab" was hung
about his neck. When the police ap-
pcared it took them half an hour to
file Bruce free.
LONDON, Sept. 10 (By The Associ-
ated Press). The Gaelic Leagues bull
letin issued late this evening says:
Lord Mayor MacSwiney grows weaker
He suffers much pain, but his mind is
perfectly clear"
A bulletin issued at 8 o'clock this
evening by the league said:
Lord Mayor MacSwiney is very low
The severe pains in his limbs and body
continue"
Mayor NacSwiney is entering the
danger stage of his fast" one of the
physicians in Guys Hospital. a recog-
niZed authority on metabolism. said to-
day. CONSERVATION of previous cases OF
the same nature has taught that at the
end of the weeks abstinence IRON
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