BOMBS ON EIRE
GERMAN REGRET
COMPENSATION PROMISE
LONDON, October 3,
Germany has now been forced to admit that the bombs which were dropped on Eire in August were German.
A German statement says that investigation showed that the bombs really were dropped by a German plane which had lost its direction. Therefore, the German Government will express its regret to Dublin and promise compensation for the damage.
But even this grudging admission is given a twist. The German news agency talks about "the latest bombs dropped on Ireland" as if there had been a whole series. This may be intended to keep up the pretence of the first official account from Berlin of the incident, which was that the bombing was much more likely to have been done deliberately by a British plane.
The bombs were dropped on three points in County Wexford. A creamery was wrecked - and three girls were killed. Six days previously a German plane had crashed in Eire. At the beginning of August an Irish steamer was bombed and damaged by a German plane off the coast of Cork.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 83, 4 October 1940, Page 8
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183BOMBS ON EIRE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 83, 4 October 1940, Page 8
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