IRISH AFFAIRS.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENES.
LONDON, April 12.
Extraordinary scenes were \vitlleSsed outside Mount Joy Prison, when a crowd of two "thousand people, includ. ing many friends and relatives of the hunger-strikers collected, clamouring all day for admission to the prison. Hundreds dropped on their knees, while girls recited The Rosary in the Irish language, the crowd responding in the Latin of the Missal. Earnest Catholics are debating whether sui cide by hunger-strike is immoral, and Whether a priest can give albsolution. to (L dying hungemtriker. . '
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3459, 13 April 1920, Page 5
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85IRISH AFFAIRS. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3459, 13 April 1920, Page 5
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