OCR Text |
Show Germany Uses Irish Spies It may surprise some Americans Ameri-cans to learn that the Germans maintain a legation in Dublin, Ireland, and that American forces in North Ireland are constantly spied upon by Nazi sympathizers who keep the Germans thoroughly thorough-ly posted as to the arrival of A-merican A-merican units, their equipment, where they are billeted and .here they are going. While many of the Irish are . outspoken in their preference for Great Britain and some citizens of Erie volunteer for the British armed forces, it is known that a number of Southern Irish people have crossed into Northern Ireland. Ire-land. These espionage agents are sympathetic to the Nazis. Those who loiter around American Ameri-can camps are observied in contact con-tact with Nazi sources and two beneral officers of the Army recently re-cently informed Frank L. Buck-horn, Buck-horn, New York Times correspondent, corre-spondent, that the Germans were aware of exactly where our men were in Northern Ireland and what they were doing. Certainly, so long as Erie remains re-mains neutral, unable to join hands with the free nations of the world in their fight against Germany, Ger-many, it will be almost impossible impossi-ble to keep any military secrets from Hitler. Moreover, members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army are numerous and the discovery dis-covery of an arms cache, intended intend-ed to be used against American forces, gave publicity to a danger which has been recognized for some time. |