WILL BE DEFIED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 9

WILL BE DEFIED.

BAN ON UNIFORMS.

IRISH BLUE SHIRTS.

Leader's Orders Issued for Parade To-morrow. NOT A FIGHTING FORCE. United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 0.30 a.m.) DUBLIN, August 11. General O'Duffy has issued printed Orders to the Blue Shirts showing that he intends to defy the prohibition against the wearing of uniforms. He commands the officers of the National Guard to impress on all ranks the imperative necessity of continuing to march. Ranks will not be broken except by the direct order of a responsible officer.

General O'DufTy, in an interview today, said: "If our proposed demonstration on Sunday is banned there may be an alternative ceremony. If there is going to be civil war the Blue Shirts will not be concerned, because, being unarmed, they would be massacred. But civil war is possible without us."

In his statement, disclaiming an alleged desire for a dictatorship, General O'Duffy said: "I want to change the present system to the most democratic Parliamentary representation, by which parties and constituencies would be abolished and representation would be by agriculture, science, labour, education and other vocations."

General O'Duffy explained that under Vs scheme every parish would have a unit of the National Guard, with a committee of officers, which would group with other parish committees until they produced a council of 100 members representing the various vocations. That council then would elect an executive by which it would be represented in the Dail.

In this way there would be government by experts. No group would be permitted to introduce legislation except such as concerned its own vocation. He hoped to get 100,000 young men to assist in the scheme.