IN IRELAND.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
THE HUNGER STRIKERS
(Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 12. Extraordinary scenes were witnessed outside Mount Joy prison, when a crowd of two thousand people, including many friends and relations of the hunger-strikers collected, clamouring all day for admission to the prison. Hundreds dropped on their knees, win o girls recited their Rosary in the Irish language, the crowd responding in the Latin of the Miserere. Earnest Catholics are debating whether suicide by a hunger-strike is immoral, and whether n priest can give absolution to a. dying hunger-striker..
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1920, Page 2
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95IN IRELAND. Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1920, Page 2
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