CHARGES AGAINST O’DUFFY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12537, 2 January 1934, Page 6

CHARGES AGAINST O’DUFFY.

HIGH COURT’S RULING. (Received 10.30 a.m.) United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. DUBLIN. January 1. The High Court granted conditional prohibition. preventing the Military Tribunal hearing and determining charges against General O’Duffy, on the ground that the charges were outside tlie Tribunal's jurisdiction, also that charges of unlawful association di not involve legal offence. The Attorney-General and Tribunal must now show cause for the charges. m O'DUFFY DEFIANT. LONDON. December 31. Steel-helmeted and gas-masked troops formed a reserve while a strong force of Civic Guards lined the main street of Clonmel when General O'Duffy, Mr W. T. Cosgrave and Mr Dlilon addressed theirsupporters . most of whom wore blue shirts, like General O'Duffy. The meeting honoured the memory of O’Reilly with a minute’s silence, as the first martyr to the cause of United Ireland. General O'Duffy compared the Itianna Fail tactics with those of Cromwell and the Soviet and announced his willingness to suffer ara humiliation for the sake of the people - He added ; 1k We aro w inn in g everywhere and shall, if not imprisoned. launch a campaign throughout rlie countryside at Atlilone on January 7. Mr Cosgrave said that only vanity prevented the conclusion ot an An-glo-Irish peace.