ARRESTED "BLUE SHIRTS”
APPLICATION TO COURT. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 19. Mr Justice Johnson has permitted the United Ireland Party’s legal advisers to apply to the High Court for a writ of Habeas Corpus in respect of O’Duffy’s arrest. The hearing of the application is fixed for December 20. TRANSFER TO DUBLIN. ' (Received December 20, 1 p.m.) LONDON, December 19. General O’Duffy and Mr. Sullivan, heavily escorted by police and soldiers, were removed by car to Arbour Hill military gaol at Dublin. The police patrolled the two hundred miles of road from .Westport. Kilcoyne was released, still wearing a blue shirt. The grounds for the Habeas Corpus allege that O’Duffy and Sullivan were unlawfully arrested without warrant, and unjustifiably detained for an offence unknown''to law, namely the wearing of blue shirts. " The Waterford executive of the United Ireland Party, representing 40,000 protested agaipst the arrests as a misuse of the-Public Safety Act, for the suppression of free speech. ULSTER’S DETERMINATION. BELFAST, December 19. “Ulster has a moral constitution all right, and will remain in close association with Britain apd the Empire,” declared Lord Craigayoh, in his speech pit'opening the new Northern Ireland ■'Parliament. “Citizens of Northern Ireland are not going to be a slavepeople under the Irish Free State Parliament, and still Jess under an Irish Republic.” LESS UNEMPLOYMENT. RUGBY, December Opening the Northern Parliament, the Duke o° Abercorn said the number of the unemployed registering for work during the present year had fallen by one-fifth, an improvement being particularly marked' in the building and linen trades.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1933, Page 7
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