IS IT GENUINE.
M’&WINEY’S HUNGER STRIKE. HOW STRIKER IS SUSTAINED. By Tjlegrsph—Pre.a Association—Copyright United Service. (Received September 20, l.fi p.m.) LONDON, September 19. ’Despite Mr M’Swiney’s recognised spiritual honesty there' is increasing idoubt concerning the genuineness of his hunger strike. The “ Sunday Times ’ recalls the fact that relatives pronounced him dying a fortnight ago .nhd adds:—“ The prison officials are certainly giving him no food, but visitors somehow are getting nourishment into his body. 1 ' This criticism appears to he unwarranted to several doctors, who declare that a fast of forty days, under Mr conditions, is practicable. Mr M’Swiney, himself, has issued a message to the Irish people throughout the world, attributing the length’of his fast to “ spiritual strength received from.daily communion, assisted by a world’of masses and prayers, the intensity of which is so apparent that I am being sustained in a supernatural manoer.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 20056, 20 September 1920, Page 8
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