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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1942, Page 3

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THE NEUTRALITY OF EIRE SHORTAGE OF FUEL & FOOD another explosion IN BELFAST. CURFEW ORDER FOR LARGE AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, October 10. Mr De Valera’s warning that neutrality would be no picnic is now being realsed in Eire, says the Dublin correspondent of the “Daily Express.” There is no coal for domestic hearths. Gas is cut off for part of the day in Dublin and none will be available for lighting throughout the winter. Thus one-third of Dublin’s 40.000 homes must use kerosene and candles. It is expected that communal feeding and cooking centres will have to be opened. The main foods have reached impossible prices. Bacon has disappeared from homes and rice is 2s a lb. Tea smuggled over the Northern Ireland border fetches £1 a lb. A man believed to be the chief of staff of the I.R.A. has been arrested in Belfast. For the fourth successive night a bomb explosion occcurred in Belfast last night. The bomb exploded in police barracks outside the 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 6 a.m. A curfew was last imposed in Belfast in 1935, following disturbances in two other areas.

INJURED BV SPLINTERS TWO POLICEMEN AND THREE GIRLS. MANY SHOTS FIRED AFTER EXPLOSION. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. Two policemen and three girls were injured by splinters when a bomb exploded on the night of October 10 outside the Donegall Pass Police Barracks in Belfast, which is outside the curfew area. Many shots were fired after the explosion, and the plate glass window was riddled with bullets.

Earlier a bomb was thrown at a police patrol in the curfew area. No one was injured. The bomb-thrower escaped.