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Show I LORD MAYOR'S FAST HELD ATTENTION OF PEOPLE WORLD OVER I LONDON. Qi I 26. The story of the snr-etarvatlon of Terence MacSwiney lord mayor of Cork. proaftply wj" D0" eome one of the inosl moving chapters ol the centuries- long history of the Irish struggle N" other eontrovor.r has stirred Ureal BHtaln so deeply as hi., since the one that centered "pon Cecil Rhodes, when the Jameson rahi sas balked by Paul Kruger and the raiders Imprisoned. , The campaign In Bn gland lei M -Svinev's release from prison haj been ipArt From ah political And party considerations con-siderations ami even the King wi ,lr.in into it Tim movement in Mai -Swlney's behalf was mainly humanitarian humani-tarian and enlisted tender-hearted peo-l.olc peo-l.olc of all factions hut wts urged Vj others with :irguments of part Btrat- Iesrv. REGARDED MARTH "MacSwiney dead and canonised in the hearts of the IrUrti people with Wolf Tone and the Manchester martyrs mar-tyrs would be .1 more valuable asael to the Sinn lin than afacSwIftey alive jrifl, even though j free pass to freedom free-dom for MacSwiney might weaken the governments hand, why help the sep iratlst cause by giving it a martyr?' trere the arguments put forward even h Unti.-h unionists. "Stand by the law and do nt .re-ate .re-ate a precedent which would make the will of a convicted rebel the doclelv factor in determining whether he shall in punched was the argument of -,-iho stand fast f iction. A majority ot talhe British papers including the l-"n-ilon Tim. s and the lihem press, th' labor unionists, and many membt ol both parties In Parliament Joined In (he agitation tor MacSwlney's release. TWO COVTKOA 1 ,KSIi:s Two notable controversies, one constitutional con-stitutional ami the othci theoloflcal, 1 ,u .miu Th.- flr-. . whether King Georg. . uuld prop-; i rly exerclae his pardoning prerogative Independently of or againal tb advlet or his ministers vti second was: whether the Catholic clergy, reprc- sontlng a church which holds .-ulcide. . to be a crime, could consistently ad- minister the sacrament hungai .striker.-- The King's repls through the secrotury of State lor war, to the petition of members of parliament tas i;.nrally interpreted to mean til King1? personal leaning was toward granting a pardon. But, aim Premier Lloyd George and the foreign minister minis-ter A Hunar Law. Were at the "J nun' issuing arguments agalnsi . I. m- m v for the lord mayor, It eras evldi n that any action In that Urectlon bj the king would be against the adi. i n; his ministers The newepapers published many .Jitorials and letter- setting irth. on j one hand, that King George she not bo embarrassed by direct appeals to htm and, on the other hnnd thai he should and had the right ,o x . -tisc his nominal constitutional power, I "i paruomng REPUBLICAN ARMl OFFICER The Weekly Nation. n'bJcli b. on o the most advanced liberal organs end not generally rated as support ol monarch, argue ) thai this wat in casion for the king to ndl its hi I constitutional right and protect the country against Liu Browing tutocracy of the cabinet There Wi man her argumen to the sam.- effect, one hlatoi Jj writer, combatting lh theorj thai the ktag always had be n a i Iphi r In uoh matters, exhumed a new atoi li the annals of British monarchy, telling how George IV described by Thackeray Thacke-ray as the weakest and least admirable admir-able character in the line of British lilnn nar. 1r. MM lit,' . niu.i'il r'linni- Ieer with tears pleading For the pardon of criminals aini sometimes i trrj hi point, although bnoe when he f rot-to rot-to the viceroy of Ireland granting pardon par-don to a murderer be wat compelled by his cabinet to cancel his did One of the chief reasons put f or-j ward by afec8winey'fl . ites, although al-though advocated from intl-Slnti Pel quarters, wall thai the offenaei ol which stacBwiney was i mvicted ware so comparatively lltrh: they did liOtl justify hla suffering even though '.oi-untarily. '.oi-untarily. Premier Llod George1 r ply was thai MacSwiney undoubtedly vdjs a high officer of the 'Irish lt -publican army" which decreed and ex-ectttad ex-ectttad murder.-, of officials and police po-lice In Ireland The Republican army unlike th Sinn Fein, is purely a SO re organization. The Identity of its officer of-ficer and personnel Is kept from the, public and there Is doubt even whether j the Sinn Peln controls It or Officially! knows Its workings. LIKi: .IOIIN ItilOWK'S BOOl The theological argument over thel i-ourse of Bishop Cola nan and Mai -swiney's chaplain, tho itcv Father Domini. , in, as critics sap. encouraging encourag-ing him to commit suicide, v.. is ijrg.d. blplical. The Rev. Father Bernard Vaughn, was lh only prlsot who publicly pub-licly criticized them. A lccluit which tic wa to deliver In Glasgow, s cen- Itor of la lor unionism, had to W- ivl.v i ciied on account of the unpopularity hts moi ..is brought upon him. The human aspect of the lord mayor's hunger ?trikf was the one that cbiefl) interested Hrltlsh people and Compelled the sympathy ot even blS hardest political enemies. Mn-MacSwln.-y and his brothers and sla-v. sla-v. treated everywhere with respect re-spect and on their side had nothing bul good t., h,; of the Jailers and police po-lice with whom they had to deal. Any way out of Macfiwiney's im-piibonment im-piibonment except his oeath would have been welcomed by the whole public pub-lic but has famll were as firm as MaeSwIaejv In refusing to listen t-, any ml except release or death. TV., an be no doubt the Irish republicans believed MacSwIney had giVep their caUss the most valuable seyvtos in his power and that, like John Bnrwn 'hfl t-H I trouble you more thmi ever when ton hsve nailed his coffin dOl a TWO-YKAR SENTENCE M i oBwinc r's hunger Mnke was be-;un be-;un on August 12 when, with tun of nis associates, he was arrested by soldiers sol-diers in Cork while attending a session of a Sinn Kcln court Afur trUI by a couK-mnrtlal under th regulations of the Defence Of the Realm Act. he was lom.d guiltv of eedltton anil sentenccl t,- two years' Imprisonment, which hf . i r-lng in itrlxton Prison tn I-on-l tlon MacSwiney, then an aldermun of I Carle, was selected lord mayor of the i lly at a special session of the Cork Corporation on March 3" of this year, He was a well-known Sinn Fein leader ind, prior to his election, had been dported and laapiisoned M -ornl timfia, oni Of the latest notable Instance of his .onflnertient having bee It in 1911 In connection with the !nsh Caster Cast-er revolt. TKIBl'N.VL DF,FIi:i When urrrsted on Aujcmtt 12 AlaC-swine3' AlaC-swine3' maniLgcd to escape to I he street from the back of the city hall, which soldiers had surrounded, but aa captured cap-tured outside. He wj taken to tho military barriicks and came up t0t trial on Augutit 16. The courtnxartl.il found him guilty of having control of the fwcret psaMce cipher, of having in tils pcws-salon a document Ilk. h to u'ise disaffection, namely, a copy of resolution of the Cork mrp rrjtlon pledging allegiance to the Dail Klre-.on Klre-.on the Irish Republican parliament, I L saaaaaaaLsaaggiasaasasaaaaaai - and of having mad a seditious speech! on the oooaaifn of his election, Already weak at the trial because of his refusal to take food. Ma8wlnty disputed the luaisdlctjon of the court ..-, ., mg i am the lord niayo of Ihls eltv and Its chief magistrate I declare ( Lhia court illegal and thoe rnklnc pari In it liable to arrest under the of the iri'h republic;" The day following his trlnl Lord Mayor MacSwiney was deported to England aboard s destroyer, 3nder s heaT military eacorl and was lodged in T'.rlxton Jail Th- eovernment an-rtotinced an-rtotinced on August 19 that he wns sen-tenoed sen-tenoed In twn -o m s' imnrlsonment, PPI ATA PROU v s MaeSwinev' hunger strike brought numerous. olleitnttons anl r)roteitu to ! th, UniKh authorities, roanv of the! 'appeal, being from sympathize!- Ifi ! the 1'nited States, . ren i threa from th Sinn Fein in Ireland, that, In the. event of his death, a genera! Strike and serlOUS disturbances would pre-.iil pre-.iil throughout the island. An appeal was taker directly to the i:inr. but thi also proved unavailing. laming his Imprisonment, the lord I mayor received numerous me?.tire of r-ncotiragement and also peMtltnos to i abandon his strike He replied the latter that if he p:i p up hts flrbl be i would "give awa Irish iherv," and that he would ''rather die than do j that." Replying to renort tb-t sustenance j lu-in? given laor MacSwiney. th.e I iiritlsh home office derlared "If h V ina fed we do not know l." 'hl! mOmbefa of MscSwIney's family denied de-nied categorically that food had been J plven him Peter MacSwiney. of New York a brother of the lord mavor. Is on offi-i offi-i i .1 of the American Commission for irisn muenen.H nee FED WHTLB JJrfCONSCIOl s. Within the past week, when it heron he-ron to appear that the lord mayor was appronchlnc the end. he was given giv-en ll.pili) nourishment by the prison doctors during pprlOdS of tinconsclous-nss. tinconsclous-nss. This fact appeared In statements by both fbe Irish Soli -Leteeminatlon leugtie. WhlCp had he n Issuing rrp-ulnr bulletins on MacSwlnev'a eondltlon, and bv the home office The 1-ague's statement showed th" lord mayor as being cvlremeU indleno" upon regaining coneclouspeat anl real-iziec real-iziec that he bud been fet. "They tricked me. and I didn't know It," he exclaimed. The league's bulletin on October 21 contained this statement: "It should be made clenr that the meat extract given the lo-d mayor .1'irlncr his delirium on the sixty-ninth day of his fast was the first nour'sh-ment nour'sh-ment which passed his lips sin y his arrest on AtirUflt 12." Tri( OF I'OI'F.. V.'l.:. -.ar,l I.. . I . I , ... ,ispcts of the lord nvyor's hunger strike and that of the Irish prisoners In the Cork Jail who began B almilar .i list e nation from food shortly before MacSwinev's f.iv -.lir1 . p w . ' itrd in a Rome dispatch on October 17 that T'op.- Benedict had re fern the problem prob-lem of the status of these hunger-sinking hunger-sinking prisoners to the congregation of the holy office. The first death among the hunger Strikers occurred on Sunday. October IT. when Michael Fltagcrald, one of tho eleven striking prisoners ir the Cork Jail, aucdumhed. He had fasted . 'ty-eight days. Several other of the Cork prisoners are dei.l.'jretl now to be In j critical State. |