O'DUFFY TRIUMPHS
OUTWITS GOVERNMENT London, Aug. 27. Outwitting the Government forces concentrated to enforce the prohibition of a memorial meeting at Bealnabiagh, where the late Michael Collins was ambushed, General O'Duffy, succeeded in addressed 5000 Blue Shirts at Bandon. Five hundred police, a detachment of military, and an armoured car cordoned the prescribed area, a wild and desolate stretch of moorlan and mountain. Two carloads of detectives followed, but a Blue Shirts' second car slowed in a narrow mountain lane, preventing the detectives' car froni passing, while General O'Duffy raced ahead and detoured ,eluding his pursuers, and returning to Bandon where he addressed his supporters unmolested. He said that Collins' murderers were now preventing the National Guard from paying tribute to one of Ireland's greatest statesmen and gentlemen. The day passed quietly in Dublin. Mr. De Valera, at Ennis said the Government was determined to prevent disturbances.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 622, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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147O'DUFFY TRIUMPHS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 622, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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