EIRE: Irish Sorrows

Northern Ireland caught it last week. One night Nazi bombers roared over sooty Belfast for four thunderous hours. In the flaming darkness so many Ulstermen were killed that the usual Belfast newspaper obituaries were trebled. One Donnelly family, consisting of father, mother, three sons, three daughters and an aunt, was wiped out. A few days later the official Nazi radio accused Belfast officials of shooting "all the dangerous beasts" in the Belfast zoo in order to make it appear that Nazi bombs had done the killing and "incite all the animal-loving people of the entire world."

Bomb fires raged furiously...

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