Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-20 | Page 1 | London Times Asks, "Who is Feeding Mayor?"

LONDON MS ASKS, "IS IS FEEDING MAYOR? Believing Himself Near Death, MacSwiney Sends Out Statement State-ment to World i LONDON, Sept. 20. Terence Mae-' Swiii. .. lord mayor of Cork, had a bad niRht a.id we Very weak this morning. .according to a bulletin issued by the Irish Self-Determination lensue. The bulletin stated that Annie MacSwlne) .sister of the lord mayor had just lft : , iirlMnn prison, where he today began trre 39th day of his hunger strike, and declared bin condition was unchanged, except for the weakness Incident to his' j long fasti In bis te.porl to the home office, thfl physician at Brixton prison, reported that ih lord mayor's condition was virtually unchang id. l ord Mayor KacSlviney ln-t night ; wrote a messvige to Irishmen through-, oiu ill - world mi behalf of himself and the hunger strikers In the Cork Jail After thanking them lor their sym- ;Palhy and pravors, the lorl mayor sail! according to the London Tlnles; CAL1 S IT Ml Kltl.lt. ! "If this cold blooded murder is pushed through it will leave a stain on the name of England which has no parallel 4 even in her history) and which nothing will ever efface. "We forgive all those who are com-passing com-passing our death. This battle is Pclm; fought with clean hearts purely for lour country. VVo have made our peace With God and bear HI will toward no man' After Invoking God's blessing upon all who prayed tor the prisoner) Mu -ISwInoy concluded b -..lying; 1 '1 believe God s watching over our country and by Hla divine aecree, her resurrection Is ut hand 1 believe this !s her last battle lor liberty and that God wll crown It with complete victory. vic-tory. Considerable t.ilk wa occasioned today to-day by a paragraph appearing in the j Sunday Times under the head: TiMKs ks ii i !STI IN, "Who Is Feeding Mr. MacSwiney?" ' Everybody la asking who la feeding! him There is no doubt at all that ' the government la not g,ing him food Or any of the prison officials. It is suggested that his visitors, priests and relatives art giving him sufficient fooii to keep" him a a Pointing out that Mr MacSwiney and i the Cork hunger strikers have virtually virtual-ly eQUalled Dr. Tanner's forty days fast, the newspaper asks how the first1 twelve men to be found Mayor Mac-! Bwihey and the eleven In Cork whi n they tried to go without food COUltl equal Dr Tinner's record, which ex-1 Cited the wonder of the world. In re ply. Art O'Brien of the Irish j Self-rctcrmlnrttloij league said to-' night "No nourishment or food of any i kind Is being given to the lord mayor.". The fast of Dr. Henry S. Tanner which lasted 40 days was carried out I under supervision of a New York niel-leal niel-leal college In the summer of 1880 Dr. Tanner had previously abstained from food, one of his efforts, unofficially unoffi-cially reported, covering 4 2 days, It was the doubt expressed regarding this achievement that impelled him to undergo un-dergo bis world-famous forty-daj fasi He was then 4l years of age and he-lived he-lived to be 87.