IRISH BLUE SHIRTS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1933, Page 5

IRISH BLUE SHIRTS

MEETINGS BANNED

FEARS OF CLASH INTENSIFIED. v Urßed Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, Ajugust 25.

General O’Duffy, an, arriving at Fe-r----m-oy to address his Blue Shirts, was informed by the superintendent of tne •Civic Guards that the meeting could not be held. He allowed General O’Duffy to tell the -crowd in the street that the meeting w:--s banned. General O’Duffy 'advised them to go home quietly. Mr Patrick .Ru'tt-ledge, Minister for Justice, has prohibited all meetings in the neighbourhood of Ban don for five days, beginning on, Saturday, including General O’Duffy’s memory inarch on Sunday. The Free State faces a third successive a-nxious Sunday. The fact is that disorder ha s hitherto been averted., This is a- tribute to the restraint both of the Government and of the Blue Shirts, but fears of a ©lash are intensified at present by a determination on the part of West Cork Blue Shirts to perform an annual ceremony at the Michael 'Colling memorial cross near the Quarry Mountains, where Michael Collins was fatally ambushed. Some estimates state that ten thous l and -of the outlawed Blue Shirts, herded by General O’Duffy, intend to a-ssemblo,

ENGLISH BEER BOYCOTT

bottles smashed IN hotels

(Received tliis day at 9.20 a.m.)

LONDON, August 27

Groups of armed men declaring that they were members of the Republican •Aitov simultaneously raided twenty public houses in various parts -of Dublin city. They jumped over the counters, produced hammers, and sm-ashed every bottle of Ba s s ale on the premises. The proprietor of one well-known hotel says that the raiders destroyed twenty dozen, and told him that' the Republican Army had decreed the boycott of Bass ale.

“We won’t allow one bottle to be seen in Dublin,” they said.

“FIRMLY IN THE SADDLE.”

MR DE VALERIA’S STATEMENT,

(Received thi« da-v at 10.10 a.m.) DUBLIN, August 26.

Speaking at Limerick de Valera said: -“We are firmly in. 1 the saddle, and shall ride to 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. Our opponents would not. welcome a.n election because they would get a bigger beating than before.” The crowd attacked an interjector whom the civic guards rescued.

DISBANDMENT OF GUARD

LONDON, August 26,

General O’Duffv -states he is Prepared to disband his national guard if the 'Government will disband other a-rmed forces in the country.