O’DUFFY’S ARREST

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1933, Page 5

O’DUFFY’S ARREST

IS IT LIKELY ?

DEFIANT SPEECH TO GUARD.

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Telegraph—Copyrigh fc;

LONDON, August 24

General O’Duffy motored one hundred miles to Coot Hall, in • County Cavan, where a number of the Blue Shirts arrived on foot, others on cycles, and others in cars. The police, who were reinforced, watched him and his party enter the Town Hall, but there was no interference with them. The representatives of IGO districts attended their meeting, which was not 0 begun until 10 p.m., owing to the necessity of awaiting ior the arrival of distant contingents. The uniform of the Blue Shirts was worn quite openly. General O’Duffy, in the course of a speech, referred to their being other arranged demonstrations, and he said: “I probably shall not be there, but most likely I shall be in Arbour Hill prison, but that will not defeat us. I have been on plank beds before.” General O’Duffy also announced that en Sunday, a parade would be held, and he added that he expected forty thousand, would participate in the parade, It is rumoured that General O’Duffy will be arrested on his return. A later message ,however, states that General O’Duffy has decided to do’fy President, do Valera,

STATE TROOPS CONCENTRATING

ACTION HELD IN CHECK

LONDON, August 24

The London “Daily Mail’s” Dublin correspondent says: The Free State troops are gradually concentrating on Dublin area. Presumably they are intended to man the detention camps, which wholesale arrests of the Blue Shirts would render necessary. The Irish press expresses the opinion that the members of the National Guard will probably be given two or three days’ grace, providing them with til© opportunity to resign. The Irish. Free State has accepted the outlawing of the Blue Shirts calmly. The Dublin leaders of the Blue Sliirts have expected a raid o n their headquarters, but none has occurieu.

MR MULCAHY’S ATTACK

LONDON, August 24

The London “Daily Chronicle’s” Dublin correspondent says: Mr Mulcahy’s attack lias been so bold that it almost amounts to an invitation to Mr d& Valera to arrest him. Mr Mulcahy is a leading member of the Blue Shirts, The Republicans hate him. because he crushed them during the Civil War.