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Show ENGLISH RAIL WORKERS POSTPONE STRIKE 6 d 4 404 4 4 . 4 4 4 FIGHT IS BEGUN AFTER LORRY ; IS PUSHED Town of Athlone in Panic Due to Promiscuous Shoot ing LORD MAYOR OF CORK IS REPORTED VERY LOW , Seventy-second Day ot Hunger Strike Finds Faster Near to Death Dl'HLfN. Oct. 23. A pitched battle I was fought last night between Kll- bCggan and Modte. county West-1 I meathe, w hen a military lorry was I ambushed One auxiliary policeman I was killed and others wounded A military party sent to the aid of the I poliec was attacked outside of Moate and a running fire was maintained ! throughout ihe town. In which it is ! reported a woman was kllbi The combined military and police parties returned to Athlone. shooting as they proceeded through the town! and causing a panic. SHOPS' M7RXKD. CORK. Oct .3. Several shops were , I turned and the windows of 'he piln-clpal piln-clpal business obneemfl were smashed; list evening at Bando, in the vicinity ii this city, near the scene of yesterday's yester-day's ambush -of military lorries, in j which an officer and a private were j killed and five soldiers were wounded, loin ,.f whom died Inter. H is re-I re-I ported the village of riinishannoh j l also was considerably damaged. IA Mtl MAYOR 111 LONDON, Oct. 23. Orave reports 1 were In circulation at noon today i- garding the odnditldii of Terence Mac-Swlney. Mac-Swlney. lord mayor of Cork, on the ; BOVenty-second day of his hunger 'strike in Rrixton prison. A slate-I slate-I ment issued by the Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph company at that hour declared the lord mayor's hst moments wore) at hand. The bulletin of the Irish Self-De-j termination leugue on the lord mayor's Condition, however, stated the league has hi"n informed that hi was In about the same slate as recently. He was unconscious, its information said RMBARfiO i PHONE "However." added the statement, ''the home office has placed an embargo em-bargo on the use of the telephone j for communicating news to the outside : and has forbidden the lord mayor's I Bisters, Mary and Annie, to visit him " I The home office explained the de- 1 nial of admission to the lord mayor's! sisters as being due only to the belldi that their visits interfered with thc careful nursing which the prisoners extremel) delicate condition required. "Lord Mayor MacSw iney s condition j i ontinui'M critical." .-.aid the homr of-I fice statement. "The scurvy has been I slightly remedied." The Self-Determination league's) bulletin this afternoon after notlngi that this was the seventy-second day Of the lord mayor's hunger strike, j added: II M'l l PR sh,T ' It has been impossible to bisue any previous bulletins to the press because of the embargo placed by the home office on the relatives of the lord Mayor. This strictly prohibits the Misses Mnry and Anni MacSwiney entering the prison and prohibits any relatives from pursuing the cjstoni of using the prison telephone to communicate com-municate reports on the mayor.' A special messenger sent to the pris-l ,on brought news regarding the lord j mayor to the league. In Its report of the sinking conoi-1 tion of Mayor MacSwinev at noon, the Exchange Telegraph company s.iid that Mrs. MacSwiney was with the mayor at that hour and that Father Doiulnn , his private nhaplaln, ulsO visited him. The league announced that Mm MacSwiney. while permitted to sec her husband, was permitted to remain onlyi short periods. A new angle of the easel deve loped today in that the lord mayor I now Is retaining food administered by the do. tors indicating that It is bcingl assimilated. This is believed mayj prolong BlacSwiney'fl life for some time, |