FREE STATE BID FOR FREEDOM

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19622, 17 October 1933, Page 7

FREE STATE BID FOR FREEDOM

BOLD WAR.NING BY MR DE VALERA BLUE SHIRT LEADER ESCAPES AMBUSH United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 16. 5.5 pin.) LONDON, October 16. Thirty men on horsehack and four bands escorted Mr de Valera, in an open carriage with top-hatted coachmen and footmen, into Enniscorthy, where he addressed several thousand people, declaring that the Free State could not afford to dissipate her energy in bickerings. Peace was an urgent necessity, for which the Government was determined to prevent disorder. He warned those planning a dictatorship that the Irish people would not abandon liberty without a long and bitter struggle. WILD SCENES IN BELFAST. FOLLOWING SHOOTING OP PUBLICAN. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 17, 1.10 am) LONDON, October 16. At Belfast, wild scenes followed the fatal shooting of a publican named Dan O’Doyle, the infuriated crowd attacking the houses, and breaking windows in the course of the search for three assailants. The police quelled the consequent faction fight after which several injured were sent to hospital. LUCKY ESCAPE FROM AMBUSH. GENERAL O'DUFFY AT CORK. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 14. General O'Duffy was enthusiastically welcomed at Cork and Civic Guards surrounded the hotel where the Blue Shirts were meeting General O'Dufly. It was disclosed that a parish priest warned him that arrangements were made to ambush him at Tralee so General O'Duffy used a new and misleading car number and got through safely. Referring to the meeting at Bandon to-morrow General O'Duffy said: "I am told I shall not be allowed to go but they won t intimidate me. I hold my life as cheaply as that (at which he snapped his fingers) and the mo6t they can do is to shoot me. I do not believe they have courage enough for it except when the numbers are 100 to one."