DEPARTURE FROM EIRE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 84, 6 November 1939, Page 2

DEPARTURE FROM EIRE

GERMAN RESIDENTS REPUBLIC'S RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN * London, October 5. The departure is reported from. Eire of most of her German resiincluding well on in;years who had a substantial stake in the country; only the German Ministry and his small staff, and one. or two families, have not returned to Fatherland. Eire has announced her neutrality in the War, but that has not prevented this general exodus of Germans; nor has it prevented the large majority of the people of Eire from sympathising with the Empire's cause. - A storv is goinsf the rounds of an Irish harbour official, making no move to detain the crew of a British • seaplane landing (who, if their craft had landed in a neutral foreign coun try, ought by international law to have been interned) said, w<^ are neutral! But who are against?" ? In the meantime the British Government has decided to appoint a representative in Eire, and Sir John \ MalTey has been chosen for that post. There are numerous questions concerning the economic, and political relations of the two' countries which require close constant discussion, and, as The ©ditor&ll}'': "The neutral*-^ ji ity of Eire riot prevent that m country from maintaining close touch with the larger Islands; thft ' links of commerce and finance in particular require to be well guard- f ed and strengthened in the prcseiifc ~*\z crisis." *