FIRMLY IN THE SADDLE
CLAIM FOR IRISH COUNCIL PROGRESS IN POLICY PLANS. THIRD ANXIOUS SUNDAY POSSIBILITY OF STRIFE 'United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyngnt.) Received I'l.lo a.m. to-day. DUBLIN, Aug. 26 Speaking at Limerick, 'Mr cle Valera said: “We are firmly in the saddle and shall ride to the victory which is 'before the Irish people. I believe our progress in industry and commerce will enable us at election time to show that everything we have attempted has 'been practically completed. Oar opponents would not welcome an election because they would get a bigger heating than before.”
The crowd attacked an interjector, Whom Civic Guards rescued. The Irish Free 'State faces its third successive anxious Sunday. The fact that disorder hitherto has been averted is a tribute to the restraint botli of the Government and! of the Blue Shirts, but fears of a clash are intensified at present 'by the determination of West Cork Blue Shirts to perform the annual ceremony at the Collins memorial cross near whei’e Michael Collins was fata Illy ambushed. Some estimates state that ten thousand outlawed Blue Shirts headed iby General O’Duffy intend to assemble.
General O’Duffy states that he is prepared to disband the National Guard if the Government will disband other armed forces in the country. .
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 August 1933, Page 5
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