FORCES OUTWITTED

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1933, Page 6

FORCES OUTWITTED

GEN. O’DUFFY GIVES ADDRESS.

AFTER ELUDING PURSUERS.

(United Presi Aseojiatioa—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received this day at 11.45 a.in.) LONDON, August 27,

Outwitting tlie Government forces concentrated to enforce the -prohibition of a memorial meeting at Bealnablagh, .where Michael Collins was ambushed, 'General ’ O’Duffy succeeded jn address, ihg live thousand Blue Shirts at Bancl6n. Five hundred police, a detachment ;'of the military, and' aii armoured car cordoned the proscribed area which is a wild and desolate stretch of moorland and mountain.

General ’O’Duffy left Bandon at high speed iu a car accompanied by Blue Shirt leaders in a second car. Two carloads of- detectives: followed, but the Bine Shirts’ second car slowed up in the narrow mountain lane, preventing the detectives’ cars passing,' while General O’Duffy raced ahead, made a dotour eltiding Ins pursuers, and returned to Bandon where lie addressed his supporters unmolested."

He said that Collins’ murderers were now preventing the National Guard from paying tribute to one of Ireland’s greatest-' statesman arid gentlemen.

" The day- passed quietly in Dublin. ’• Mr de Valera at Ennis, said that the ’Government: determined to prevent