Brooklyn Eagle (January 2, 1941)
ÉIRE BOMBED OVER 5-HOUR PERIOD; 3 DIE
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5 Separate Localities Attacked – One Missile Identified as German
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Dublin, Jan. 2 (AP) –
Invading aircraft cruised within a 60-mile radius of this capital of neutral Ireland (Éire) for five hours last night and early today, killing at least three persons with high explosive bombs and dropping fire bombs, one of which was officially identified as of German origin.
An announcement by the Irish Department of Defense said a fire bomb picked up in the vicinity of The Curragh of Kildare, one of five localities bombed, bore German markings. This area is a great level tract near the center of County Kildare, formerly British Crown property but now headquarters of the Irish Army.
Residents of an area near Kilmashogue, County Wicklow, were evacuated by authorities after discovery that two large parachute mines were dropped there in the course of last night’s airplane attack, the United Press reported. Military officers deal with landmines, which apparently were of the delayed action type.
The closest to Dublin of any of the exploding bombs was one which wrecked three residences in the capital’s southwesrtern suburb of Terenure.
The casualties were caused at Borris, County Carlow, about 55 miles south-southwest of Dublin. The bombs near the Curragh were reported to have caused no damage except the firing of a line of haystacks.
The attacks took place between midnight and 5 a.m.
Bombs also were reported dropped last night near Drogheda, in County Meath, 26 miles north of Dublin, and between Drogheda and Juliantown, where the largest viaduct in Ireland, carrying the Northern Railroad over the River Boyne, is situated.
A string of bombs fell on Duleek, near Drogheda.
London, Jan. 2 (AP) –
The British imposition of a licensing system on Irish exports, announced yesterday by the Ministry of Economic Warfare, was viewed here as adding a finishing touch to Éire’s economic dependency on the country she refuses to fight for.
The Ministry said that beginning Jan. 22, exporters in Ireland must procure navicerts (British cargo certificates) for shipments to several European neutrals, Soviet Russia, French West Africa and certain smaller territories. The United States is excepted.