BITTER FEELING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 704, 2 December 1933, Page 5

BITTER FEELING

» ALLEGED BRUTALITY B (Rec. 8.25 p.m.) g Dublin, Deeember 1. -■rhe raids were extensively carried laB in West Cork, including General ffcB)uffy's headquarters and the homes the Blue Shirt commanders, alllBugh they were not accompanied by Jpests. ■mi*. de Valera's new scoop astound- ■ the Free State. The raiders in rtBch case consisted of a superintendan inspector and ten detectives liRmed with warrants authorising a ■arch for arms, ammunition and •■ditious documents. 1a sergeant told Mr. Cronin that had discovered four boxes of am^Kunition at the party's offices, but ;X>. Cronin denied that the ammuniBm was there an hour earlier. ■ Mr. Cronin later said: "A police ofEial asked me if I accused them of ■Santing ammunition. I replied that Binot only accused them of planting » hut I was prepared to swear that ^Key or their agents planted it.' ■ in the Dail Dr. O'Higgins denouncH Mr. de Valera's conduct of the ■ionomic war and condenmed the flEid wherein the Government's opBonents' homes were entered and ^■leir wives treated as no woman Bould be treated by Free State of■cers. If the Government could not ■rovoke United Irelanders by what ■iey did to them they would provoke Biem by what they did to their gnves. He added that he possessed Broof of 100 brutal assaults on memKei*s of the United Ireland and Young Bi'eland organisations, where young Knd old men had been taken from heir beds and beaten. Arms and Documents Mr. Ruttledge replying read docunents some of which he said had ieen scizcd in raids, which he said, iroved conclusively that the Young Ireland Party's ,aims werie revlolu^tionarv. He added that arms and ammunition had been discovered; The raids had been carried out in dayLight, guaranteeing tbe arrested person?, if any, reaching the prison alive, which was niore than could be said of the methods of the previous Government. Professor O'Sullivan, amid uproar, protested at the irrevelant statement. He d-clarerl that the Government was goading young men into cominitting illegalit'e?. He appealed to young men not to play Mr. de Valera's ganie. (Profo.?or O'Sullivan was still speaking whon the1 Dail rose until January 31.