ANXIOUS SUNDAYS.

Wairarapa Age, 28 August 1933, Page 5

ANXIOUS SUNDAYS.

FEARS OF CLASH IN IRELAND INTENSIFIED. i BLUE SHIRTS AT WEST CORK DETERMINED. TO PERFORM ANNUAL CEREMONY AT COLLINS MEMORIAL {Received Sunday, 6.45 p.m.) London, August 26. The Free State faces the third successive anxious Sunday. The fact that disorder has hitherto been averted is a tribute to the restraint of both the Government and the Blue Shirts, but fears of a clash are intensified at present by the determination of West Cork Blue Shirts to perform the annual ceremony at Collins’s Memorial Cross, near Quarry Mountains, where Collins was fatally ambushed! Some estimates state that ten. thousand outlawed Blue Shirts, headed by General O’Duffy, intend to assemble. BAN EXTENDED. MEETINGS NEAR BANDON. LONDON, August 25. The Free State Minister of Justice (Mr. Patrick Ruttledge) has prohibited all meetings in the neighbourhood of Bandon for five days, beginning on Saturday, including General O’Duffy ’s memory march on Sunday. SENT HOME. BLUE SHIRTS AT FERMOY. LONDON, August 25. General O'Duffy, arriving at Fermoy to address local Blue Shirts, was informed by the superintendent Of the Civic Guard that the meeting could not be held. He allowed General OlDuffy to tell the crowd that the street meeting was banned, and advised them to go home quietly.