GENERAL O’DUFFY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22023, 4 August 1933, Page 9

GENERAL O’DUFFY

HOME RAIDED BY DETECTIVES TWO REVOLVERS SEIZED. LONDON, August 2. General O’Duffy stated that fwo detectives entered his house last night and removed two revolvers, one of which Michael Collins held when, he was murdered. It was given to General O’Duffy by Collins’s sister-in-law as a souvenir to his first Commander-in-Chief. General O’Duffy added that ho had permits for both revolvers. It was the most callous victimisation imposed by any Government on a public servant. His pension would probably be denied him, now his life was being trifled with. The Irish people would deal with this victimisation at the proper time and in tly; proper manner. It was ridiculous to state that he was aiming at a dictatorship. The question whether blue shirts were military uniforms should be tested in the, courts. WHAT. THE GUARD STANDS FOR, RIGHT AGAINST MIGHT. ft LONDON, August 3. (Received August 3, at 9 p.m.) Accusing the. National Guard of being irimply a pro-British organisation, the Irish Republican Army, in an official statement, declares itself to be definitely pledged to the achievement of Ireland’s complete freedom and independence. It states that the National Guard is subsidised from Imperial sources and its leaders are drawn from betrayers of Ireland’s national independence. General O'Duffy' replied that the guard stands for right against might and the end of the gun and the bully. Mr E. J. Cronin, the guard’s secretary, refused to give the police his revolver or disclose its hiding place.