VALIANT O’DUFFY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 18, 16 October 1933, Page 9

VALIANT O’DUFFY

Free State Campaign HOLDS LIFE CHEAPLY Warning of Tralee Ambush By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received October 15, 7 p.m.). London. October 14. General O'Duffy was enthusiastically welcomed at Cork. Civic Guards surrounded the hotel where the Blue Shirts met him. It is disclosed that a parish priest warned him that arrangements had been made to ambush him at Tralee, so General O’Duffy used a new and misleading car number and got through safely. Referring to a meeting at Bandon to-morrow, General O’Duffy said: “I am told I shall not be allowed to go. They will not intimidate - me. I hold my life as cheaply as that.” He snapped his fingers and added: “The most they can do is to shoot me. I do not believe they have courage enough for it except when their numbers are a hundred to one.” RAIDS IN BELFAST Sequel to Callous Murder CORONER’S STRONG VIEWS Belfast, October 13. As the outcome of the recent murder of Constable Anderson by unknown masked men, which the coroner described as a “wanton and unspeakably vile crime.” a large force of armed police and detectives in armoured cars raided the “Republican” quarter of the city and arrested 33 persons, several of whom are members of the Irish Republican Army. Fifty members of the Republican Army have now been arrested in Ulster in two days. They are likely to be imported to the Free State with fourt<_X others recently arrested while drilling in a shed. The coroner in his verdict that Constable Anderson was murdered by persons unknown said: “This cold-blood-ed, dastardly, wanton and unspeakably vile crime makes one wonder what sort of civilisation it is in which we are living.”