AN UNEXPLAINED OUTRAGE.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 4

AN UNEXPLAINED OUTRAGE.

'pilE bombing of ;i number of places in Eire, including Dublin, with some resultant fatal am! other casualties ami damage to property, has its puzzling features. The indicated facts are that the bombing Ims been carried out deliberate!v by German airmen. Fragments of some of the bombs dropped have been identified as German and it may be supposed that the Eireann Government iecls that its protest to German} ami demand for reparation is backed by .■nlctpmie evidence. In these v i I'eii nisi a nees. Germany s demal that she has had anything to do with the dropping of bombs in Eire will count tor as little as the suggestion of an official spokesman in Berlin that the bombs must have been British or imaginary. These utterances will be regarded very gem-r.dly as merely another example of the entirely unscrupulous disregard of the Xa/i dictatorship for the truth. It admittedly is not easy to assign a motive for the wanton and apparently pointless outrages which are reported to he rousing the Irish people to fury, The dropping of bombs on a number of occasions over a comparatively brief period seems to cxebtde any possibility of random bombing by bewildered pirmen unaware of their whereabouts. Tim evidence in sight suggests definitely that the bombing was deliberate, but its intended purpose remains difficult to imagine. A cominim'ion of Xazi bomlnng might lead to the Eireann Government being compelled to declare war on Germany, ami the X.-./ts Im'.e nothing obviously to gain and a good d'Sil to b>s.- from f!m‘ development. Entering the war. Eire presumably v/ould <-nt..ree i.i.od. out, strengthen her defences and make some m her ports aviidalile to the Royal Xaw. AH this iviiuid tie decjdct’W disadvantageous io Germane and would he a-t-.st , t mm to Britain in enabling her io extend her campaign agauis! the I boats ami protect her seaborne commerce y,.- ,1, mH seem to be anv doubt that the Xa.-u dictatorship has gone oiit of its nay dehbcrai<’lv to tinta'.'oijise Eire The only ob\ ions alternative explanation would he the '|e-,dopwi;t of ;!!i odd kind of mditary sabotage y. irhiti the Xa.’i < r n;< m It . ,u ironic de’ad that it: l»o:;.b..>: • D 1 .X. iaiig.-r ,j, .‘roymc tiirir .v, l.eg.g < H ••stabi.sj.ed .«■ ;♦ u ’ city.