OGPU IN IRELAND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18162, 9 August 1933, Page 7

OGPU IN IRELAND

BAN ON BLUE SHIRTS CLASH INEVITABLE DUBLIN, Aug. 8. The police received information that the Irish Republican Army will attempt to prevent a parade of the Blue Shirts on Sunday. Members will bo held up and prevented from reaching trains which are running to Dublin from every part of the Free State. The activities of the I.R.A. caused the Government to prohibit the parade on the pretext of fears of disorders.

Although -General O’Duffy’s demonstration on Sunday is still the chief cause of anxiety, according to the Daily Mail’s Dublin correspondent, it is also feared that any prominent cxMinisters resisting attempts, to deprive them of arms may precipitate a crisis. A clash is apparently inevitable, but as an Irishman said today/ “In Ireland the inevitable never happens. It is the unexpected that occurs.” ~ General O’Duffy and Mr. Blythe, who refused to surrender his revolver, both complain of the Ogpu methods by which their telephone conversations are tapped. Newspaper men also alleged that their conversations with officers and prominent men are systematically tapped. The Times' Dublin correspondent expects Mr. Cosgrave to raise the question of the recruitment, of -an armed force at the Dail meeting to-mor-row, possibly postponing the adjournment. ■