Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-31
Thousands
PayTribute
To Martyr
Stream of Friends Pour Into
Irish City to View the
Body of Terence
MacSwiney.
Hunger Strikers Firm
BY The Associated Press.

Cork, Oct. 30.-Thousands of
Irishmen of all,classes and callings
with their families, came to Cork to-
day to pay their respects at the bier
of Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney,
late of Cork. BY train, jaunting cart
and afoot, hundreds from the country
about Cork and from the more dis
tant Irish centers entered the city
from early morning,
The glass-covered casket, revealing
the emaciated features of the late
lord mayor and hrs body dressed in
the uniform of an officer of the Irish
republican army, reposed on Hower-
banked catafalque, t. ur volunteers in
civilian dress maintaining guard. The
platform of the choir loft. in front
of which the body lay. was solid
bank of greenery and flowers framing
a central floral rear -sentation OF the
crucifix, which outlined against a
huge background of black velvet,
dominated the whole display.
The offerings were accompanied by
coincidence and tributes to the lord
mayors martyrdom from all parts OF i
the world. Many came from the
Chicago chapter of the Friends of
Irish Freedom and other American
organizations and individuals.
Father Dominic, the dead lord
mayors private chaplin. today re-
ceived the following telegram from
Chaplain General James ]. Troy of
the American forces on the Rhine,
dated at Coblenz:
please convey to the lady
mayoress and profound sympathy in
her great bereavement. Mayor Mac
Swiney died for the things we fought
for in the world war and his name
shall go down the ages as an i'm
mortal who did not quake before the
tyrant, but whose soul was as grand
as the ideal for which he died.
have said mass for him and the other
martyrs in Cork jail, and will do the
same on the feast of All Souls.
Their names will forever be treas,
ured, not merely in Ireland. but
wherever the word and reality of
freedom are loved and honored."
OIQeIeQ TO axe TOou.
Cork, Oct. 3d. Bishop Cohalan of
Cork visited the Jail yesterday and
peremptorily ordered the hunger.
strikers there to take food. All re-
fused. Thereupon the bishop in
structed the nuns attending the hun
ger strikers to >prepare food. The
nuns. having no alternative. obeyed
the command aud offered food to
each of the prisoners, but all re-
fused it.
Bishop Cohalan now is appealing
personally to the Sim Fein leaders
to release the prisoners from their
hunger strike. AT noon today they
hadNcompleted the Both day of their
fast. Michael Burke collapsed this
morning. Sean Hennesy and
Thomas Donovan were reported
very low.
Protest Funeral Postponed.
London, Oct. 30.-The Sim Fein
executive has decided to postpone
the funeral of the late Lord Mayor
MacSwiney of Cork until Monday
as protest against the governments
action in the case. and to appeal
from the military order restricting
the length of the funeral procession
to quarter of a mile, says a dis
patch to the Central News from
Cork, this afternoon.
Memorials in u. S.
Washington, Oct. 30.-Memorial-..
services for Terence MacSwiney,
late lord mayor of Cork, will be held
throughout the United States tomor-
r@, it was announced today by the
Friends Of Irish Freedm.
Bishop Thomas ]. Shahan, rector,
Of Catholic university. in sermon
at the solemn requiem mass sung
Tor the repose of the soul of the late
lord mayor at the university today.
declared that never in the history OF
mankind had there been an individ-
nal act of self-sacrihce equal to that
of MacSwiney.
"The whole world" said Bishop
has been fascinated, so to !,
speak, by MacSwiney's principles,
and when it eliminated in his death
he won the respect and admiration
of all, including his enemies"
Riot in Ireland.
Thurles, County Tipperary, Ire
and, Oct. 30.-Great damage was
lone last evening in Templemore,
.ight miles north Of here, through
lcts of violence. Numerous shops
we're wrecked during the disturb
lnces. Details as to the circum-
'tances and perpetrators were lack
ng this forenoon.