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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1920, Page 3

TN IRELAND

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McSWKKNEY’S TREATMENT. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON September 19. The Home Office replying to a correspondent states there is no foundation for the statement in American press regarding the prison treatment the Lord Mayor of Cork. He has from the first been allowed the privileges granted political prisoners ■ arid has never been required fo : wear, prison clothes. Since ph'has," by' refusing food reduced himself to a state of weakness he remains in f>ed in a large room at the liospitaf, and enjoys the fast medical ‘aftenffop. Trained nurses arq with hifli clay and flight apd everything possible is done for hi? comfort. Excellent food, suitable for hia enfeebled condition, is kept constantly at his bedside and nurses have done their best to induce him to partake of this. \ MeSWEENEY’S EAST. (Received This Dav at 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, Sept, 19. Despite McSweeney’s recognised spiritual honesty there is an increasing doubt concerning the genuiness of the jiunger strike. The ‘(Sunday Times’* rP calls’ the fact that he relatives pronounced him dying a fortnight ago, and adds: “The prison officials are certainly giving him no food, but the visitors somehow' are getting nourishment into his body. 'ffig crjtipism appears unwarranted tp doctors, who declared that a fast of forty days under McSweeney’s cpndition is practicable. McSwpeney himself Jias issued a mes- . gage to the Irish people throughout the WQrld attributing th e length of his fast to ■ ‘spiritual strength received from daily communion, assisted by a world masses and payers, the intensity of which is so apparent that I am being sustained in a supernatural manner.