CHICAGO TANG

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1933, Page 5

CHICAGO TANG

IRISH OUTRAGES ULSTER FARMERS ARE ARMING. ] (Halted Press Association—By F'.ectrio Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, October 30. The “Daily Express’’ says: The shadow of the political gunman is over Belfast. There is a- Chicago tang about recent outrages, and the purpose is to make political trouble. Ulster prescribes the Irish {Republican Army, thirty-eight of whose members have been arrested in the last three weeks. The T.R.A. is setting about its business in grim earnest. Ulster is full of armaments, a s farmers there have been sending for re- j volvers and rifles, on the plea that' I ‘•Papists are arming so that we must, , have armour of our own.” Lo; s of these arms, which date- back to 1914,: have/ passed to the Republican Army, The authorities have accepted the challenge. They mean to keep their warfare underground. If a special Act passed prove s insufficient to stop gun rule, then the Ulster Government will take further powers.

BLUE SHIRTS’ HOMES RAIDED. • _ LONDON, October 29. Aimed men from a motor car entered a Blue Shirt, Denis O’Leary’s, home at Bandon, before down, and shot him in the leg, after battering down the door. O’Leary’s father, chairman of the local creamery, was knocked unconscious with a stick. The intruders brandishing revolvers, dragged the son out of doors, assaulted and shot him, then decamped. ' The father struggled to the Civic Guard Station, bleeding from the head. Aimed masked men an hour later raided a Blue Shirt,. Hugh O’Reilly’s bungalow, in J.nnishannon, dragged him out and beat him severely, necessitating hi s removal to the hospital. . 1