SINN FEIN PRISONERS.
♦- STRINGENT CONDITIONS j IMPOSED. By Telegraph--Pres? Association-Copyright. Australian N.‘Z. liable Association. LONDON, November 14. Stringent regulations are being imposed on 150 remaining Sinu Feitiers in Mount joy prison, including attendance at mass in groups of three. This was resented as an indignity, and the internees returned to their cells, where all are now hunger-striking. (A cable message published yesterday stated that eight Sinn Fciners serving life sentences sensationally escaped from Mountjov prison. They obtained hv unknown means police uniforms. overpowered and locked up the warders and marched to the main rate, where three warders challenged them. The escapers attacked the warders, who whistled for assistance. The escapees ran from the prison. They were shot at by auxiliaries, hut escaped and have not been traced A SINN FEIN BOYCOTT. Indications are forthcoming that the truce is less regarded in the conn tryside. The boycott is intensifying in Tyrone, where the police surprised a party of Sinn Feiners posting a long list of firms which had been ordered to be boycotted for selling Belfast goods.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16582, 15 November 1921, Page 2
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