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Show BH LORD POR OF- CORK EARING DEiTUEPORT Nine Persons Dead as Result 1 of Monday Rioting in f Belfast I SIGNS OF FURTHER I TROUBLE OMINOUS Girl Workers Fight Like Wild I Cats in General Melee Upon Streets I LONDON, Aug. 31. Terence Mac- H Swine;, lord mayor of Cork, who has H been on a hunger strike since August H 12, was still alive this morning, but H his ulster. Mao. vvho visited him, said 1 hi was growing weaker and "that the 1 end may come at any moment " H He spent a restful night, however. H n official w-ho saw MacSwIney ear- H ; ly today, described his condition as - aasssssssl j being like that of a "man on a prccl- tH I pice," adding that ' the slightest breo.e H might blow him over at any time " H NINE PERSONS DEAD. I RELFAST. Aug. 31. Nine persons ; are dead as a result of yesterday's H rioting In this city, another man be- mg kille.i last night and two of those it woundeel in yesterday's disorders dy- Revised reports as to casualties jH show that since the rioting began last J Wednesda y. 2fi have been killed. t Knotn of soldiers held strategic jf 1 points In the affected areas during the Ominous signs of further trouble inhered In tho n-vv day in l !ot torn Belfast. The only actual outbreak reported early this forenoon was the I stoning of employes of Mackl's foun- dry In th'- notorious Kashmir road 1 GREAT DISORDERS. Never In the history of Belfast was !H iliere such disorders as prevailed yes- - terday Mobs fowpht with wild fury, I women mixing with the men in the ' mele. i ' - fought like wild - 1 eats In one plaico, parties attacklmr lH each other as they were going to work. H j I'nlonist women charged on anumber H of Nationalist girls in Cork street. H whlb the Nationalists made an attack IH on Unionists in the Kills roads dls- H The district was placed under cur- few ordinance last night, and there ,H j were rumors that martial law would H , be declared, but othlng definite was IH done by the authorities H TROOPS DEPART. DUBLIN AmK 11. Cameran High- lander troops the First Scottish RI- H , fles went on board special trains hern this morning, and it was believed thev H I were being sent to Belfast. H |