Mutual Restraint In Free State

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7246, 28 August 1933, Page 7

Mutual Restraint In Free State

But Fears of a Gash Still Prevail WEST COKK BLUE * SHIRTS DEFIANT United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 26. General O’Duffy states ho is prepared to disband tho National Guard if tho Government will disband other armed forces in tho country. The Ereo State faces its third successive anxious Sunday'. Tho fact that disorder lias hitherto been averted is a tribute to the restraint of both the Government and tho Blue Shirts, but fears of a clash are .intensified at present by tho determination of tho West Cork Blue Shirts to perform their annual ceremony at the Collins’ Memorial Cross, near tho Quarry mountains, 'where Collins was fatally ambushed. Somo estimates stato that 10,000 outlawed Bluo Shirts, headed by General O’Duffy, intend to assemble. Meetings Prohibited for ; Five Days at Bandon O’DUFFY’S MARCH TOO LONDON, Aug. 25. The Ereo State Minister of Justice (Mr. Patrick Ruttlcdgo) has prohibited all meetings in the neighbourhood or Bandon for five days, boginning on Saturday', including General O’Duffy’s memory march on Sunday. Blue Shirts at Fermoy Sent Home Again LONDON, Aug. ho. General O’Duffy, arriving at Fermoy to address local Bluo Shirts, was informed by tho superintendent of the Civic Guard that the meeting could not be held. He allowed General O’Duffy to tell the’ crowd that tho street meeting was banned, and advised them to go home quietly. Civic Welcome for Mr De Valera TURNED DOWN BY LIMERICK LONDON, Aug. 25. There was an angry scene in a Limerick Corporation meeting over a proposal that a civic welcome should be extended to Mr. do Valera when he visits the city on August 27. One councillor protested that Mr. do Valera < < had ' the impudence to come to Limerick at a time when ho is applying the Coercion Act to a section of tho people.” On the Lord Mayor’s suggestion, the proposal was withdrawn.