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Show WIFE OF HUNGER STRIKED SENDS PLEA TG WILSON Woman Asks President to Use Influence With British Government LONDON. Sept. 5. Mrs. Terence I MacSwmey has sent a telegram to j President Wilson In behalf of her hus-j band, lord mayor of Cork, who has i for several day9, been In a serious condition as a result of a hunger strike j which began August 12 in Brixton j prison. Mrs. MacSwIney asks Mr. Wilson to I use his Influence with the English gov- eminent "to prevent the perpetration of an outrage on civilization. "' She do-' dares her husband Is dying. Mayor MacSwlnev was apparently weaker this morning and the prison doctors expressed great alarm. They I advised his relatives Jthat nobody! should converse with him today. The lord mayor spent a had night and this morning was very pale and1 WSS suffering from complete exhaustion, exhaus-tion, being able to speak only In gasps Annie MacSwlnoy. the lord mayor's sister, on leaving Brixton Jail at 2:3o o'clock this afternoon, nald her brother broth-er wa.s at his civ lowest UO i ItXMEXl l.M'l ix LONDON, Sept. 4. The reasons' why the government will not release lord Mayor MacSwIney of Cork are given In an official statement Issued today. They are that (resit attempts: would be made to "continue with; added activity the long series of mur- ders of policemen." and "would open the way to any person imprisoned for any similar offense to use the ca.se of! the lord mayor as a precerjUent with good hopes of securing release and tho opportunity to repeat the acts which lead to his Incarceration." WORD FROM BOSTON Boston. Sept. 4. James t. iiorl-l arty, president of the city council, as acunx mayor of the city, today sent to Premier Lloyd George, of England, i the following cable messjiKe regarding the hunger strike of Lord Mayor Mac-Swlncy, Mac-Swlncy, of Cork. "Overwhelming sentiment of citizens citi-zens of Uoslon Is that MacSwIney's death would he a crime against civilization civ-ilization and repudiation of every principle for which the great world war was fought." |