"MOB LAW RULES"

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 93, 30 January 1934, Page 5

" M OB LAW RULES"

ARMED MEN MAKE RAIDS. GEN. O'DUFFY'S ACCUSATION', "POLICE REMAIN SUPINE," (United Press Association—Copyright). DUBLIN, Jan. 29. '"Mob lav/ rules the Free State and Bolshevism runs riot," said General o'Duffy, when describing how a number of'armed men kept guard outside the headquarters of the United Irish Party while others entered, beat the occupants and smashed 'the in broad daylight. "The police remained supine," he said. Armed men broke into the house of Dillon's Cross of Mr John Murray, who was' recently acquitted of membership of the Blue Shirts. Mr Murray's mother and sister drove out one of'the intruders, while the other fired tAvo shots and then decamped _ when Mr Murray attacked him with a poker. A crowd outside fired through the window, wounding Mr Robert Pegler, who was taken to the hospital. Three men tvero arrested.

ARMED INTERRUPTION FAILS. PLATFORM SET ON FIRE. DUBLIN, Jan. 29. Hoping to prevent his speech 'at Skibbereen, armed opponents lined the front of General O'Duny's platform in Hotel Square, with levelled rifles. They ordered two Civic Guards to put their hands up. The Guards refused, and blew then- whistles. The intruders sprinkled the platform with inflammable liquid, fired their rifles in the air and drove off. The fire was extinguished and four thousand blue clothed men and colleens escorted General O'Duffy to Che meeting place.