Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
MACSW|NEy CAN'T
PROMISE PREMIER
END TO MURDERS
Father Dominic Replies to Re-
ported Possibility of
CIemency.
BY tn. Associated Press.

! LoNt'ON. september T.--TerenCe
MacSwiney. lord mayor Of Cork. who
has been on hunger strike since
| August IL, and for several days has
been in a critical condition in Brix-
ton prison, was reported appreciably
weaker this morning. hut conscious
and able to speak. Father Dominic
pssiva. .,. chaplain to Maseswiney. said
pain in the left side of his abdomen
and in the heart.
Regarding the statement made by
Premier Lloyd George indicating that
Mayor MacSwiney probably would be
released il guarantees were given
that the murders Of police in Ireland
would cease. Father Dominic said
the mayor had no authority to max
any promise for the cessation of MUIR
ders in Ireland. as he was only an in
dividual Sim Feiner.
II the experiment. is satisfied that
Dominic added, why doesn't 1t cap
ture the murdererS and execute
Them"
Mrs. MncSwiney Grateful.
In a message to sympathizers with
Mayor MacSwiney in. America, Mrs.
MacSwiney today said:
| Il wish to express to all the Irish
people and many sympathizers with
| lreland's cause in America my deepest
appreciation of the messages and
lcablegrams I have received from them
ever since my husband started hunger
striking twenty-five days ago. In con-
trast with those among the English
people who proclaim themselves SYM
palmetto to elementary justice being
done to my husband, and who content
themselves with words and appeals,
ireland's sympathizers in America
economic boycott as shown in the
Wlthdrawal of policies from English
| insurance companies and refusal to
nanaIe English shipping. This is like
~ TO bring home to the minds of
Lloyd George and the English govern
ment what may be the erect through
out the world of the doing to death of
my husband in an English Jail"
! mrs MacSwiney. speaking to the AS
ISOLATED Press correspondent with COM
toss of the head. declared this morning:
| YES | am positive he will see his
! task through OF course it is only his
| conviction he is fighting for, the ideal
| that has enabled him to survive. am
| fully reconciIed to hearing of his death
His battle is mine. for it is one l took
| on myself when I married him three
years ago while he was in England I'M
der deportation order. Our lives since
then have been mainly spent in evading
my husbands arrest or waiting to be
reunited through his release from prison.
Thus. the role l now am playing is one
| to which have long been accustomed"
mrs MacSwiney concluded with the
same outward show of cheerfulness and
resignation.
New Outbreaks Suspected.
The Daily Mail says it learns that
new activity has been noted among
certain well organized units of the
lieved in official circles. the news
paper adds. that a new series of
armed outbreaks has been planned
and that it is considered likely these
The same newspaper asserts that
after the governments definite re-
fusal Friday to release Lord Mayor
MacSwiney @nis friends in London
republican government" in Ireland.
| asking that the lord mayor be re-
| leased from his oath and that per-
mission be =, given hi, him to take , food:
from Liege. Belgium. quotes David
Lloyd George. the British prime min
lister. as saying that il guarantees are
given that the murder of policemen
lin ireland will cease the premier is
convinced that Lord Mayor MacSwi-
be released from prison.
! Other special dispatches tend to
confirm the interview printed in the
Times
According to the Times, the premier
said that not single one of the del
iuge of appeals for clemency offered
1.-THE slightest assurance that such
killings would be stopped. He added
that the unconditional release of the
imprisoned men would be disastrous
to the morale Of the irish police and
make government in Ireland impos-
sible.
offered Food Each Day.
LONDON, September 6.-Each day
as the fast Of Lord Mayor McSwiney
in Brixton prison progresses there IL
staged by the bedside of the dying
man a tragic little act, which was
disclosed to the Associated Press to-
day by Father Dominic of the Fran
ciscan Capuchin Order, Mayor Mac
iSwiney's private chaplain.
! Every morning food in some form
or another is brought ~ by the pris-
on authorities and offered to the
starving prisoner in the hope that his
almost uncomfortable craving will
master him and. that he will be tempt
ed to eat. Every morning there is the
same end to the act-MacSwiney, who
is too weak to utter spoken re-
fusal, brushes his desire and turns
his head away. So it has gone on
until the twenty-ffth day of his hum
ger strike has been reached.
There have been many rumors that
lMacSwiney was being given suste-
nance in drinking water or otherwise.
This is Indignantly denied by rela :
tives and friends. and the Associated
Press was further informed in an au-