TO SMASH RULE OF GUN

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 12 September 1933, Page 5

TO SMASH RULE OF GUN

NEW IRISH PARTY AIM ; ;; : i : ■.. ■ ; n , GENERAL O’DUFFY’S AMBITION. BLUE SHIRT ARMING DENIED. RELIEF FROM TRADE WAR. (United Pres* Association— By Electric Telegrapn eopyngut.) . • LONDON, Sept. 11. “1 want to smasJtt, tno nue. ot the gun in Ireland and uuiid up a magnificent body of youth wnicn will ketp law and order by non-military methous and promote social life in the villages/’ said General O'Duffy in an interview with the Dublin correspondent of the “Daily Teiegrapn." “Talk of tne Blue Shirts be.ng armed with revolvers and rifles is ail bunkum,” he added. “Nevertheless the inhabitants or isolated villages feel secure in the thought that there are 30 or 40 strapping youths in their midst who will keep order with their strong right arms. They will be like the Fascists in many of their ideals but completely unlike them .in methods. Stern discipline will be maintained but they will make the lives of the *. lllagers bright by the promotion of concerts, games and sports. “The first thing the party will do will be to end the disastrous trade war and seek an agreement with Britain. It will then seek to gain the sympathy of the six northern counties and ibrdng about unity in r reland. This can be done by sane Government. I believe a general election is near and that Mr de Valera will be defeated soon after the Dail reassembles m October.”