"I DEFY THEM"

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 338, 27 September 1932, Page 5

"I DEFY THEM"

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vigorous reply CHALLENGE ISSUED BY LEADER OF WHITE . , ARMY ' THREATS OF ARREST

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Rec. Sept. 26, 7.0 p.m. Dublin, Sept. 26. "I defy them Let them do their damnedest. We are going to earry on despite threats of ihtimidation." daclaj-qd , Mr. O'Higgixis, fo under of the White Army, replying to threats by Ministers that cri'ticism of Ministers was -tant'amount to treason. He added: "Moreover, I called them by their proper names. A cow.ar.d will be called a coward, and blackguai'd will be .called a blaclcguard." ExMinister Mulcaliy similarly accepted the challenge. ■ Speaking- at Bray, where the White Army ejected a hostile section of the audience, Mr. O'Higgins declared that nobody snpposes that Mr. Oosgrave and Mr. Mulcahy will be imprisoned, firstly hecapse Mr, de Valera, who has refrained from perspnal abuse, is not anxious for his followers to form a nation, and secondly because the leaders of both parties were restrained by the responsibiiity due to the existence of the I.R.A. and the WJhjte Army. Everyone desires to prevent their clashing. Meanwhile Ministers are anxiously and hastily attempting to prop the collapsing structnre, fearing the Eabourites' discontent, and the farmers' hostility, which are now predominant in Irish politics