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Show STOP EXECUTIONS IN ERIN, WOMEN PLEAD PAUIS. Dec. 21. ( L)y The Assoclat-. Assoclat-. d Press ) An appeal signed by several sev-eral prominent women of Ireland WSJ cabled from France to President Warding today protesting against "the executions of prisoners of war" in Ire-1 Ire-1 land. I "Such executions." the message declared, de-clared, "are unparalleled In history, violating all the rules of International j warfare. Eleven thousand prisoners, , men and women. ar- new :it the mi n y lot the Free State government Will Ami rlcn stand for this while indlyn.mt at Turkish utrocltles." The n, -i-.ii: w 1 Mgn-1 b . Margaret Mar-garet P. arse. mother of I'atiUk H jPearse. . Iiok n first jrr-sldent of thf Irish republic and executed bv the Rrltish after the rebellion In 1916; AIne Ceannt. widow of Commandant 1 Ramon Ceannt vho Iomi his life In the ,11116 rebellion; MIfs Mary MacSwIney. jsi.ter of the late Mavor BlacSwlhey of Cork. victim of a hunger strike, and 1 Mrs. Mary FolloWes, mother of I. lam Mellovves. one of the leaders executed jby tho Frc-e State military court recently re-cently as a measure of rprisal. Ono of the women came to France jfrom Ireland to send the cable mes-jsage mes-jsage and avoid the censorship. 1 nft i |