PRICE OF NEUTRALITY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 14, 12 October 1942, Page 6

PRICE OF NEUTRALITY

Grim Realization In Eire

(Received Oetolier 11, 9.20 pm.) LONDON, October .10.

Mr. De Valera’s warning that neutralitv would be no picnic is-now being realized in Eire, says the Dublin correspondent of tlie "Daily Expres.-.. There is no coal for domestic hearths. Gas is cut off for part of the day in Dublin and none will be available tor lighting throughout the winter. Tims one-third of Dublin's 40.0(10 homes must use kerosene and candles. It is exix'eted that communal feeding and cooking centres will have to be opened. The main foods have reached impossible prices. Ba eon lias disappeared front homes and rice is 2/- a lb Tlie tea smuggled over the Northern Ireland border fetches £1 a lb. A man believed Io be the chief of staff oj' the 1.11. A. lias been arrested in Belfast. l''or the fourth successive night, a bomb explosion occurred in Belfast last night. The bomb exploded in police barracks outside lhe curfew area.

Following a number of attacks on police this week, a curfew was ordered for the larger area of west Belfast. No one except those holding permits is allowed abroad in the areas affected between 8.30 p.m. and (> a.m. A curfew was last imposed in Belfast in 11)35, following disturbances in two other areas.