IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

(AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

MORE RIOTING

LONDON, August 26.

Newtonwards area was in ferment on Wednesday afternoon, confined principally to stone throwing between rival factions. Energetic military precautions were taken. Troops with Lewis guns were stationed at strategic points and wire entanglements were erected. Serious rioting began after midnight and the troops were compelled to fire, one rioter being killed and 20 wounded. 30 were arrested. Forty incendiary fifes were started in private houses, spirit stores and groceries', several being destroyed. Fierce rioting between rival mobs in Bally Macarrett, district of Belfast. Revolvers were used and there was much looting until tlio military dispersed the crowd with machine guns. A number of rioters were wounded.

, ON HUNGER STRIKE. LONDON, August 28. I Although still on hunger strike, it is ■ reported that proteid food has been added to the drinking water given Mayor McSweeney of,.Cork, in Brixton Prison. He has improved. He agreed to accept medical treatment. He ; was able to leave his bed for some fame. 1 The Bishop of Cork (Dr Cohalan), in a letter to the newspapers urges the release pf Mr McSweney. The Bishop declares that Swanzy, the police officer who was shot, was implicated in the murder of the late Lord Mayor of Cork, McCurtain, on the 19th. March. He says the Irish Police are no longer doing real police work, and declares that they are now being epiployed ip tracking down the opponents of the coercionisfs Government in Ireland. “When,” he says, “a policeman is shot then law and order are vindicated by murder by arson, and by some innocent persons being shot as a reprisal. j

MeSWEENEY’S HUNGER. STRIKE

i (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) * LONDON, Aug. 29, Interest in McSweeney’s condition is widespread. It is reported lie is sinking and cannot last more than two or ■ three days. Many temperate appeals to release .him have been sent to Government beside intemperate ones. It is generally believed that his death will intensify Irish bitterness. A crowd outside the City Hall at Cork awaits the latest bulletins regarding the prisoner. Numerous masses are offered daily by many churches. Miss McSweeney found her brother rapidly sinking to-day and declares* he may die at any moment. A good deal of pressure is exerted on Government, e ß P ec ially by a certain section of the liberal press, for clemency to McSweeney. Other papers point out that while it is reassuring to find Ireland moved at the prospect of a man’s j death, the record of brutal murders of j the past weeks seemed to indicate that Ireland was indifferent to the fate of : the victims. 11 The “Yorkshire Post” points out to 1 the Catholic Church that it is a sinister i sign that suicide is being raised to a ] national cult. It cannot think clearly * that Sinn Fein sympathisers will lead i them to condone suicide or the use of ( organised suicide as a political weapon. (