ATTITUDE OF I.R.A.

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 34, 9 August 1933, Page 7

ATTITUDE OF I.R.A.

FEAR OF DISORDERS

CRISIS ANTICIPATED

DUBLIN, August 8. The police have received information tjiat the Irish- Republican Army will attempt to prevent a parade of Blua Shirts on Sunday. Members: of tha Blue Shirts will be held up and prevented from reaching trains ■which, are running to Dublin from, every part of the Free State. ! The activities of the I.R.A. may persuade the, Government to prohibit the parade on the pretext of fears of disorders. , ' . Although General O'Duffy's demonstration on; Sunday is' still the chief NBJC^of anxiety, according to the '^MBy Mail's" Dublin correspondent, it i'Slso feared that any prominent exMinisters resisting ' attempts to deprive them of their arms may precipitate a crisis. A clash :. apparently is inevitable, but as an Irishman said today, in Ireland the inevitable never happens; it is the unexpected that usually occurs. '•'■, . General.'OflDuffy and Mr. Blythje, who refused to surrender their revolvers, both complain of the Ogpu methods by; which their telephone conversations are being tapped. Newspapermen also 'allege that their conversations with, officers, and prominent ;/men are being systematically tapped. i T,he Dublin correspondent of "The Times" expects Mr. Cosgrave to raise the question of recruitment of ,armed fore r* at the Dail meeting tomorrow, possibly postponing the adjournment.