O’DUFFY ELUDES CORDON

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 August 1933, Page 7

O’DUFFY ELUDES CORDON

PURSUERS THROWN OFF TRAIL LEADER TALKS TO BLUE SHIRTS BIG ASSEMBLY AT BANDON QUIET DUBLIN SUNDAY (United Pre**s Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 1.10 n.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 27. Outwitting the Government forces concentrated to enforce, the prohibition of the memorial! meeting at Bealnablagli, where Collins was ambushed. General O’. Duffy succeeded in addressing 5000 Blue Shirts at Bandon. Five hundred police, a. military detachment, and an armoured car cordoned the prescribed area, a wild, desolate stretch of moorland and mountain.

General O’Duffy left Bandon at high speed in a car accompanied by the Blue Shirt leader in a second. Two carloads of detectives followed, but the Blue Shirts second catr slowed in a lfarrow mountain lane, preventing tlie detectives’ cars from passing while General O’Buffv raced ahead. He detoured and eluding file pursuers returned to Bandon, where he addressed liis supporters Unmolested. He said that Oollins’ murderers were now preventing the National Guard from paying tribute to one of Ireland’s greatest statesmen and gentlemen. The day passed quietly in Dublin.

Air de Valera, at Finns, said the Government was determined! to prevent disturbances.

GUN-RUNNING STORY

RIFLES FROM BELGIUM. Received 2.50 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 27. “Reynolds News” discloses a sensational gun-running conspiracy between Belgium and Ireland and states that thousands of rifles were landed at Mizenhead by a trawler from Antwerp in the past few days and more are coming. _