"LET HUNGER-STRIKERS DIE."
OUTSPOKEN MEDICAL MAN
("Times*' and "Sydney Sun" Services.)
LONDON, March 16
Dr. Mercier, in a letter to the Press, Rays he considers that the authorities exag?er.-\to the outcry which would follow the death of n hunfier-stjiker. The general verdict, ho says, would be "Serve her right." The value of life to-day is now overestimated as much as it was underestimated a century ago. when five hundred persons would he simultaneously sentenced to death at Newgate. He recommends that if the authorities shrink from allowing theso criminals to inflict death sentences upon themselves, they should proclaim them outlaws.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14919, 18 March 1914, Page 9
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