DEFIANT LECTURER.
MISS MacSWINEY IN AMERICA
WASHINGTON May 1. Miss Mary MacSwiney, the s/ister of the Sinn Fein Mayor of Cork who died as the result of a hunger strike, threatens to become a big news issue. She had been lecturing in a dozen cities of the United States when the immigration officials suddenly began to wonder how she reached the country. Yesterday they sent an inspector to ask her a few discreet questions. That gave Mary an opportunity to declare that she was here all right, quite legally, that it was nobody’s business how she got here, and that if tho officials intended to persecute her she would start a hunger strike immediately . . She defied arrest by tins official, who meekly backed out and reported to headquarters. To-day, Mary has sent a defiant note informing the Immigration Commissioner that she landed in New York on January 24, from aboard a British vessel, with a passport, and under an assumed name. She again defied arrest. and threatened to hunger strike. A search of the records at Ellis Island failed to show her name or description.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 140, 18 May 1925, Page 5
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