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Show PRISONERS ON HUNGER I STRIKE NEAR DEATH! I DUBLIN, April 10. (By the Associated Associ-ated Press.) Tho one hundred and four Sinn Fein .prisoners who have been for six days on hunger strike in Mount Joy prison, are so weak that their relatives have been sent for. Both the prisoners and the government seem determined not to yield and it is feared that some deaths may occur. Among the serious cases arc Alderman McCabe, Sinn Fein member for Sligo and Councillor Carolan, Sinn Foln member of the Belfast corporation. The handcuffs have been removed from the hunger strikers and somo of the prisoners have been sent to the hospital, but they still refuse to take food so Jong as they are in custody. nn |