Enemy Agents Work From Ireland

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 54, 7 March 1944, Page 5

Enemy Agents Work From Ireland

CAUSING ALLIES CONSIDERABLE CONCERN Received Monday 7.50 p.m. NEW YORK, March 5. “The tightening of restrictions, communications and travel between the United Kingdom and Ireland is becoming more evident as the invasion date approaches,” says the New York Kerald-Tribune’s London correspondent. Allied security officers are already recommending the halting of all except official travel to Eire because the Japanese and German Governments still maintain legations in Dublin which are presumably allowed the diplomats privileges of communications with their homo capitals. “Eire is fully determined to remain neutral. The Irish feel strongly that to jump on the United Nation’s bandwaggon now that the Allies seem sure of winning the war would be an admission of moral guilt, so they are not jumping. “Japanese and German Ministers and their staffs drive freely around Dublin in cars using American petrol, and their embassies are heated by British coal, But Eire sees nothing illogical or ironic in the situation. The American Minister (Mr. David Gray) called attention to the irony ol Irish army cars using American petrol supplied by Britain, hunting down Allied air men escaped from Irish internment camps where they were placed for having landed on Irish soil while protecting ships bringing the petrol lrom America. Indeed, the American Minister’s blunt talk, according to the popular verdict, has made him the most unpopular diplomat in Dublin.” The New York Times’ London correspondent says: “Japanese and German diplomats and consular agents in the various neutral countries on the fringe of Europe are causing the Allies considerable concern. Germans from Spain and Tangier can gauge the extent to which the Allies are sending men ana materials to the Mediterranean. Prom Eire they can get some idea of the flood of material crossing the Atlantic to England. From Turkey it is possible to watch the Allied diplomatic campaign in the Balkans and also to watch the disposition of Allied arms in the Eastern Mediterranean. ‘‘Thus the Germans have a fairly good view of the three great roadways into the heart of Europe. It would be difficult to overestimate the importance oi this. The Germans have constructed.

an efficient network of roadways for the movement of troops. Thus, for example, the Germans upon seeing a great convoy enter the Mediterranean some time ago moved a whole division from Calais and three other divisions from France and the Balkans to Italy to oppose our fresh troops.”