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Show FORCE USED TO FEED IS. ETHEL DIE Condition of the Woman on ''Hunger Strike" Said to j Be Improved. NtW YORK. Jan. 27 Mrs. Ethel Byrne, who bepan a "hunger strike" 1 when she was sentenced to thirty days In I th penitentiary on Blaokwells Island last i Monday for birth-control propaganda, 1 was subjected to forcible feeding late today to-day for the second time since she began her prison term. A bulletin Issued by the physician In charge declared Mrs. Byrne "offered no resiHtance," and indicated that she was willing to receive food; "hut made no effort ef-fort to take It of her own accord." The food, administered through a mouth tube, consisted of a pint of milk, two eggs and some brandy. One-sixteenth of a grain of strychnine also was given to the patient. Concerning Mrs. Byrne's physical condition, condi-tion, the bulletin said the blood pressure, respiration and pulse were normal; temperature tem-perature slightly aub-norinal, and that she was "generally improved." She had taken no exercise today and her face and hands were washed for her. The decision to feed Mrs. Byrne forcibly forci-bly was reached last night after the phy sicians had come to regard her eondltton as dangerous. At that time she was given eggs, and milk through a mouth tube. Her sister. Mrs. Margaret Sanger, who also Is facing trial on a charge of spreading' spread-ing' birth-control propaganda, issued a statement jbarly today that Mrs, Byrne had become unconscious and was in a precarious condition. Repeated . appeals of Mrs. Sanger for permission to visit her sister were denied by the authorities. Mrs. Byrne's lawyer i also was refused ,a permit to see her. j Later he issued a statement in which he I characterized as "untrue" the statement I of- the prison officials that Mrs. Byrne I took, food wtlhout resistance. I |