AN IRISH COMEDY.

Wairarapa Age, 29 August 1933, Page 5

AN IRISH COMEDY.

GENERAL O'DUFFY OUTWITS GOVERNMENT. address to five thousand BLU'JS SH I &TS. DENUNCIATION OF MURDERERS OF COLLINS. LONDON, August 27. Outwitting the Government forces concentrated to enforce the prohibition of the memorial meeting at Bealnablagh, where the late Michael Collins was ambushed, General OTJuffy succeeded in addressing five thousand Blue Shirts at Bandon. Five hundred police, a detachment of military, and an armoured car cordoned the proscribed area, a wild, desolate atretch of moorland and mountain. General O’Duffy left Bandon in a highspeed car, accompanied by Blue Shirt leaders in a second car. Two carloads of detectives followed, but the Blue Shirts’ second car slowed in a narrow mountain lane, preventing the detectives’ car from passing, while General O’Duffy raced ahead, made a detour,.. eluded his pursuers, and returned to Bandon, where he addressed his supporters unmolested. He said that Michael Collins’s murderers were now preventing the National Guard from paying tribute to one of Ireland’s greatest statesmen and gentlemen. A PATRIOT’S MEMORY. ANNIVERSARY HONOURS DENIED. LONDON. August 28. While General O’Duffy’s ruse at Bandon furnished one of the richest comedies in Irish political history, Dublin jaw the anniversary of Michael Collins’s death pass without a parade. At Bealnablagh, in addition to the four thousand Blue Shirts, ineluding Mr. Ernest Blythe, the ex-Minister many members of the public attempting to visit the monument were blocked by the police. Mrs. Powell, sister of Michael Collins, was refused permission to pass the cordon.

DUBLIN’S “QUIET DAY.”

WAR DECLARED ON BRITISH BEEB. REPUBLICAN ARMY RAIDS. Dt JBL IN, August 27. The day passed quietly in Dublin. Groups of armed men, declaring that they were members of the Irish Republican Army, simultaneously raided twenty public houses in various parts P“ b l in City ’ ■> om P ed °»e counters, produced hammers, and smashed every jottle of Bass’s ale on the premises. The proprietor of one well-known hotel says that the raiders destroyed twenty dozen. They told him the Republican Army had decreed a boycott of Bass andl would not allow a bottle to be seen in Dublin. “BIDE TO VICTORY.” MR. DE VALERA 18 BOMBAST. LONDON, August 97. Speaking at Limerick, Mr de Valera “ ld: ‘We are firmly in the saddle, and ahaU nde to the victory which is before the Irish people. I believe our progtess in industry and commerce will enable us at election time to show that everything we have attempted is practically completed. Our opponents would not welcome aa election because they before * bi SB er beating than The crowd attacked an interjeetor, whom the Civic Guards rescued. Mr. de Valera at Ennis said that the disturbance *** detennined ‘° prevent REPORTED GUN-RUNNING. THOUSANDS OF RIFLES LANDED. August 27. ■n*yuOlCU fl -News” discloses a atwn. y*** ol **! gun-running conspiracy be“d Ireland > “d states <>' Mos have been fX^»^f en .? ead atra ’rter IreliSd en ,„^ e l d ’a “i‘ he sonth ’rest of and Mi'zen HeadJ 011 ’ >etWeen Cork