NATIONAL GUARD
| IRISH IDEALISTS ' VX #-:-V »* • - f ANTI-BED ORGANISATION. : , 4; A - - ■, U- . , \ VIOLENT SCENES ENSUE. LV , ■ — 7 (XJsted Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright) s (Received 9 a.m.) ' I DUBLIN, July 20. general O’Dussyp formerly Chief Commissioner- of thA Civifc Guard, Dublin/ has been appointed head of a new. organisation - called the National Guj|rd, or- Slue Shirts, formed out ot theC, Army Comrades’ Association. Guard has been declared to be independent of all .political organisations. It aims at promoting national nni|y and the suppression of Communisn| , , Street fighting followed the convention at winch General O’Dussy . was elefted. Bodies of young men and women attacked the Blue Shirts.
The Civic Guardis used their batons to idispprge,jthe crowd, and several people were; injured.
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Northern Advocate, 22 July 1933, Page 10
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120NATIONAL GUARD Northern Advocate, 22 July 1933, Page 10
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