THE HUNGER-STRIKERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15317, 13 September 1920, Page 3

THE HUNGER-STRIKERS.

LONDON, Sept. 11. The Dublin City Council magistrates have • resigned m a body as a protest against the Government's Irish policy. They adopted &- resolution praying that the Government will be granted wisdom to avert" widening the breach by allowing McSweeney to die.— United Service.

, ' ' LONDON, Sept. 12. ' The majority of the 1 at Cork are amcopsciqus. , It iB reported that m pursuari-ce of ■■■ the 'recent request prison doctors ceased to ; attend them. Nuns from the local convent take turns at the bedsides.

DUBLIN, Sept. 11. The trams stopped- for two hours on Saturday to enable the tramwaymen to attend mass fop McSweeney.— A. and N.Z.C.A. ' . i ' •,■• - (Received SeptemberV.l3, x 9.30 a.m.) , iLONTIQN, Sept. 12. The. afternoo^i bulletin states that McSweeney: has^a'lie-n a turn for the worse. ' . --..-,. •'[-■."■ "'. ■ The wid<sw ofj Sheehy Skeffington, shot : during-. tbep. ..:T>ublini relbellion m Easter of 1916, ijrwjuJred thi» morning at Brixton prison c^i^jernjng his condition. He was therV;«till cahaeious. . •

STEEL ARMOR f OR POLICE. . JiONDON, Sept. 12. ITie Sunday Tin)es sjtys tthatt t the rearming of the Irish Constabulary, With the latest army rifles 'and powerful revolvers, is well . a^vanceid. Police engaged m dangerous duty are provided with a .steel bodyguard . under their tunics. — A. and N.Z.C. A.