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Show WM v y v w v v v v v I LONDON FEARS PLOT TO ASSASSINATE KING IfiDEfilPEIIB, BRITONS TOLD Sensational Rumors Spread By Reason of Latest Situation In Ireland PUBLIC MEN'S LIVES IN DANGER, BELIEF Whether Lord Mayor Mac-Swmey Mac-Swmey Is Being Fed Continues Con-tinues to Be Discussed LONDON, Sept 2j Humors of , widespread plots, which have ranged from conspiracies to assassinate King i George to blowing up public buildings, i have been current in London during the past few days. ThesC. neporis have been caused by fear that the i lives of public men In Great Britain i might be Jeopardized should an; of ; the Irish hunger strikers die. puiMcu- larly now that the black and tan" I police have made reprisals in several Irish towns Investigation of the ru-I ru-I mors obtained only negative results. One man giving an Irish name and having In his possession four rifles and riah Self-Determination league , literature, was arrested I OOD I OH M SWIXJCV. LONDON Sept. 2J. ' What Is geep ling Lord .Mayor MacSwlngy alle,", continues lo hr- one of the Tnrwt id-' ' orbing topics for discussion on the! pari Of the public and by the icva-i icva-i papers, This was the -iKth diy of j the prisoner's fast In Brixton prison. "It can bo nothing but spfrltual aid; that Is keeping him alive it must be In answer to the prayers of tl.o thou-' sandj who consider him a martyr to the cause of Irish fn edom." tild the 1 lord mayor's sister Annie Art- O'Brien. Indon secretary of1 the Irish Self-Determlnation league.; todaj siid he attriinited the surprts-J Ing endurance of the faster to the man's strength of Will, and the trOiUlC-l tion that he is in the right." ELEVEN OTHEa SI RIKJ RS. In rebutting the urgumenls of Lord! Mayor MacSwiney's friends that the extreme care given him and the pre-I eautlons taken against blood poisoning poison-ing make the duration of his fast lessl remarkable, it la suggested b some of the newspapers that this explanation explana-tion would not be difficult to iccepl In his case, but seems to bo Illogical' when it In considered that there are! eleven hunger strikers In Cork who; have been abstaining from food for two days lOngi r than MacSwlney. The Yorkshire Post says ll is no only asserted that May. or MacBwlrfey Ik being fed. and ins bj direct orders of dlgnltorles of his. church, but even the name of the 1 sustaining tabloid from which it is aU lege,! he draws sufficient nourishment to remain alive in given." Official spokesmen m Irish nationalist nation-alist and government quarters ItOUtlyl maintain that they know nothing of any surreptitious feeding of sfacSwi- n. ) They agree that If In some manner, food Is being administered It a of an insufficient quantity to sustain the prisoner's Ufa Indefinitely It was admitted li, both these quarters quar-ters i hat MacSwlney is slowly dying TOWN FIRK, LONDON, Sept. 28 A dispatch to! i he Exchange Telegraph from I niblln sajs tho town of .Mallow, County Cork, Is on fire In several places and that the fir. brigade Is unall- p. lurn out on account of tho curfew order Many houses and plants have been burned The damage amounts to Si erul thousand pounds. soi nil n SHOT MALLOW, County Cork, Ireland , Sepl Sfl The military barracks here tveri raided loiiay, the raiders escaping escap-ing with arms. ( ne soldier ghot ii' ad l LLIANS Kil l i ii BELFAST, Sept. :8. Two civilians. ver. shot dead and a number of per-sons per-sons were wounded during a ( l ash between be-tween soldiers and a crowd on tho Palll road late today, REPRISALS TOPH LONDON, Sept. 28. Reprisals in Ireland are neither connived u nor! supported by the government. wai declared tonight by Sir Hapjar OreeU-wood. OreeU-wood. chief secretary for Ireland -qr1 Hamai mude ihls statement in replj to the storm of criticism which had been raised In the British press over! the recent dei laratlon of General Sir Neville Maeready, commander of the inlllt.irv forces In Ireland, made In in Interview In which he was quo.ed asl saying that the reprisals were not actuated ac-tuated by any set policy of the government gov-ernment but that the situation might l.-come mii n. if the guerilla warfare of the Irish republican army continued, contin-ued, that reprisals would be necessary i |