6 APRIL 1944, Page 13

Snt,—As a Southern Irishman who, in the last war, volunteered

on August 4th, 1914, and who, in this war, has two sons in the Allied Navies, may I say that .I have just returned from fourteen months in Southern Ireland? During that time I wandered about the country from Dublin to Galway and thence to Cork, visiting many out-of-the-way places inland and on the coast. During my travels I met every class of people, from the highest to the poorest, and I talked with many of them under conditions which are generally conducive to free expression. Never once did I hear, or hear of, anything that could be construed as anything

but friendly to the Allies.—Yours, &c., ROBERT GIBBINGS. Box Farm, Bracknell, Berks.