McSWEENEY’S DEATH

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1920, Page 2

McSWEENEY’S DEATH

| ,AUSTRALIAN & N.Z Cable associationJ NEW YORK, Oct. 25. Irish Societies are arranging a big mass meeting and memorial service, honouring the death of McSweeney. The Mayor of Newark has ordered the American flag above the Town Hall tb be lialf-masted. LONDON, Oct. 25. Though there is no outward sign of trouble at Cork, all reports declare that a feeling brooding of disaster exists. The police and military precautions are. extensive. , / There is widespread mourning in Cork. The public bodies have adjourned and places of amusements are shut. A bodyguard of Irish Volunteers now propose to proceed .to England to escort the remains of McSweeney. The Catholic Bishop of Southwark holds a Requiem] Mass for. the repose of McSweeney’s soul. The body lies in state at Southwark Cathedral, and the public will be permitted to view it, if order is guaranteed. The prison doctor summoned Father Dominick at four-thirty in the morning, saying that McSweeney had taken a bad turn. v McSweeney was unconscipus when Father Dominick came. The priest whispered the prayers for the dying. Then he retired, while the doctors made a last attempt to revive McSweeney by administering strychnine. The doctor then told Father Dominick that he had done everything and that McSweeney was beyond his aid. Father Dominick then returned and repeated the prayers for the dying. As he walNfinishing these, McSweeney died. dr. MANNIX’S SYMPATHY. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 26. Dr Mannix sent a, message of sympathy to McSweeney’s relatives and he will particpate in the obsequies, giving absolution together with the Bishops Amigo and Cotter, at a high mass in .Southwark Cathedral on'Thursday. OF COURSE NOT. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 26. De Valera has issued a statement eu-. logising McSweeney, attacking Britain, and denying he had said he would hunger strike. THE “TIMES” VIEW. (LONDON TIMES SERVICE —copyright] (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 25. The ‘‘Times’ ’ editorially^.severely rebukes the Government for the McSweeney tragedy, as betraying the fairest hopes of those anxious for an Irish settlement. The paper earnestly appeals to the Irish people to remain calm, and says Ireland must look to the British people father than the British Government. ' . HIS LAST WORDS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 25. When McSweeney was dying, his brother telephoned to Mrs McSweeney, who hastened to the prison, where she remainded three hours, praying at the bedside of the corpse. McSweeney’s last words, addressed to his sister were: “You bear witness I die a soldier of the Irish Republic.” The sister replied: “I will remember.” McSweeney said: “No, write it down. God save Ireland.”