STRIKE IN CORK
A LIVELY ENCOUNTER BLUE SHIFTS DEFY POLICE (lace. Tci. Copyright -I'nile.il Press Assn.) (Received Dec. 4. 2 p.lll.) FOAiION. Dec. 3. Blue shirts and Republicans fought with their lists at, Cork on Saturday night, several being injured. A police baton charge raised a siege of the Blue Shirts’ headquarters. A procession fit Blue Shirts escorted to Cork Mr. O'Duffy and Mr. Blythe after a meeting at Queenstown, where Mr. Blythe resisted a police attempt, to silence him. The superintendent fruitlessly appealed to Air. Cronin, who defied the “gangster Government” to suppress Ire? speech. Mr. Blythe’s and Air. Cronin's refusal to wear, as hitherto, “civvies” over their blue shirts is regarded as a direct challenge to the Government.
General O'Dully appeared in a lounge suit, hut tn-dav fulfilled his promise In wear a blue slijrt at Macroom. where lie spoke after the town had been isolated by cutting the telegraph and telephone wires, and felling trees on the roadsides, necessitating the police and soldiers hacking a way through as a preliminary to preserving order.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18262, 4 December 1933, Page 6
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