THE RELEASES.
AWFUL SITUATION IN" PRISON. MANY AT DEATH'S DOOR. (Received at 10 p.m. April 16). LONDON, April 15. The situation in the Mounjoy prison was of the gravest. In the afternoon many deaths were being expected at any moment. Four men were unlikely to live and the remainder were in tho last stages of exhaustion. It was significant that simultane. ously with Lord French's summons to tho Act-ing Lord Mayor to visit him (though previously an interview was refused) the military were withdrawn from the precincts of the prison. A priest apepared at four o 'lcok and requested ftie crowd to allow a passage between the prison and' the hospital, and also not to make any demonstration, as the men are in the weakest possible condition. Tho prison authorities then •summonjed an ambulance corps. TJie prison gates were thrown wide open, and the people were allowed freely to enter. Irish volunteers were drawn up, and they kept order. The police and troops, were now invisible. • ■
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Grey River Argus, 17 April 1920, Page 5
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