PETROL FOR U-BOATS
EIRE KNOWS NOTHING “GLASS TO BLIND EYE” ALLEGATION BY M.P. (Reed. Oct. 14. 9 a.m.) LONDON. Oct. 12. The Rev. D. James Little, member of the House of Commons for County Down, at a meeting in Belfast .said that when the Eire Government was asked about supplying petrol to U-boats the reply was that the Government' had no knowledge of the matter. That was puling the glass to Ihe blind eye with a vengeance, said Mr. Little. Here we had a British Dominion selling its petrol and oil to enable German submarines to sir k British ships. “There is nowhere else where ii'c Germans could get petrol on the west coast of Ireland,” declared Mr. Little.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20377, 14 October 1940, Page 10
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