GENERAL O'DUFFY'S RUSE

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20987, 16 October 1933, Page 9

GENERAL O'DUFFY'S RUSE

1 AMBUSH AVOIDED ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME IN CORK (Received October 15, 8.47 p.m.) LONDON, October 14. General O'Dull'y was enthusiastically welcomed in Cork Civic Guards surrounded the hotel where the Blue Shirts were meeting. General O'DufTy said that a parish priest had warned him that arrangements would be made to ambush him at Tralee, so he used a new and misleading motor-car number plate and got through safely Referring to the meeting at Bandon to-morrow, he said, "I am told I shall not be allowed to go. They won't intimidate me. I hold my life as cheaply as that," at which he snapped his fingers. "The most they can do is shGot mo. I do not believe they have courage enough for it, except when the numbers are hundreds to one."

REPUBLICAN ARMY IN ULSTER THIRTY-FOUR MEMBERS INTERNED BELFAST, October 13. As a sequel to the murder of a policeman named Anderson on October 9 a large force of armed police detectives in armoured cars made a midnight round-up of the Irish Republican Army, and 33 were arrested. Fifty members of the Irish Republican Army have now been arrested in Ulster in two days. Thirty-four, including several university students, have been interned. The coroner, delivering a verdict that Anderson was murdered by persons unknown, declared: "This is a cold-blooded, dastardly, wanton, and unspeakably vile crime. It makes one wonder what sort of civilisation we are living in."