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Margaret Sullavan in "Little Man, What Now?" with Douglas Montgomery, Fred Kohler, Alan Hale, Mae Marsh, George Mooker, a Univerani picture coming on Sunday at the King's Theatre,
"THE NEXT WAR”
HOLLAND MAY BE INVADED
PREPAREDNESS DEMAND
Amsterdam, Sept. 11
DUKE'S TOUR,
To Stay At a Famous Shoop Station
DOES GERMANY WANT WAR
British Journalists' Views
Two of the best-known British
The Duke of Gloucester's Aug- tralian tour will 'includo a visit to one of the Commonwealth's most famous shcop-stations, journalists, Mr. W. N. Ewer, of the Gostwyck, in New South Wales Daily Herald, and Mr. Wilson owned by birs. Hugh Gordon. It
has a world-wide reputation for Harris, of The Spectator, recently That Holland, and not Belgium, the production of merino wool, visited Germany. The results of their visits have been given in a in the "ext war" is the extremely riding, gond shouting, squash rac may be the battlelick of Europe says Austral News,
His Itoyal Highness will enjoy series of articles published by the Juncomfortable conclusion being
named. papers
As it happens, driven to Dotch minds as they quets, tennis and polo, there, as both men deal with the same sub- contemplate the Impressive forti- well as seeing how a modern sheep
station is managed,
ject, viz. "Does Germany want fcations now being rushed to completion on the eastern frontiering New England country, 3,000
The station is set in lovely roll-war?" fect up. It comprises 23,000 acres Mr. Ewer, who is one of the most and carries 16,000 sheep. The uncompromising British opponents spacious homestead is, surrounded of Fascism, is honest enough to by lawns, rose gardens, pergolas, answer the question in the nega- flagged walks and A famous tivo. English elm avenue,
He says that his endeavours to discover traces of a desire for In war of revenge or conquent have Ied to nothing. He studied the
of Belgium and France.
For the stronger those fortifica tions become. the more necessary will it be for the invader to plunge through Holland-neutrality or no neutrality to skirt those frowning strongholds of steel and to drive [through Belgium into France.
The Belgians study the map and are pleased; but the Dutch study the map, and are depressed,
army which was flung into that
norrow danger zone in 1914.
For when Herr Hendrick Colijn contents of whole piles of German was War Minister in 1911-after school-books and arrived at the con- For the more or Iras combined years of active service in the Dutchclusion that they hardly differed Franco-Belgian line now extends East Indian Army-he ridiculed from the English ones. along their eastern frontier and as the Dutch plans for national de-
NARROW STRIP.
of Utrecht and Amsterdam.
far north as the southern edge offence then in the War Office files. Mr. Wilson Harris writes in a the Dutch province of North Those plans consisted mainly of a similar way. He did not meet a Brabant. This in
nice
for the scheme to
inundate the fortress single person ascribing warlike Belginns but very rough on the Dutch for it leaves exposed to All the other territory was to be intentions to Chancellor Hitler or attack that bag-like southern pro- eft virtually undefended, on the General Gocring. It is scarcely jection
of Holland known theory that as long as Holland believable, he says, that Germany Limburg which contains nearly all could hold out in her inundated ean contemplate wan. Alsace- the Dutch coal mines and such part of the country, all would be Lorralne she has given up for good;- important towns as Maestricht and well,
the-Saar-she--hopes- to regain- Venk
It was
Herr Collin, now the through the Plebiscite; the ques- "strong nun" of Holland, who tion of Eupen and Malmedy can be Insisted on building up ኪ well-settled in an amicable way; a ten- armed field army on modern lines, year pact has been concluded by and it was that army, flung, intu iterr Hitler with Poland, and it is Limburg in the twinkling of an getting more and more unlikely which preserved Dutch that he wants to apply force of neutrality in that world
to the Austrian situation. trophe.
Moreover the National Socialist But Herr Colijn to-day has to Government requires certain One reasoI, according to the think of the hard-pressed Dutch breathing space-perimps twenty realistic Dutch, Is that the Dutch budget as well as of the probable years or so-in order to complete Army was mobilized twenty-four date of the "next war"-United the internal reconstruction of hours ahead of the Belgian, and Press.
Germany.
was a sore
That narrow strip of Dutch soll temptation to the Germans in 1914, and volumes have been written on why they did not cross it and plunge straightway into Belgium.
was concentrated in Limburg when
the Germans atvanced to the frontier. As soon as they realized that determined resistance con- fronted them, the Germans wheeled and in record time built new road skirting Limburg and heading southward to the Belgian frontier: In a few days they were shelling and blowing up the much-vaunted Belgian fortresses along the River Meuse. It was a close shave for Holland,
POSITION NOW WORSE.
of t
To-day, according to many to responsible positions, Holland's position is for
worse, for the Germans would gain nothing by crossing that narrow strip Limburg. No, what they must do is to strike openly at Holland, Invading the heart of the country in drive to get around the northern end of the Franco- Belgien line of forts.
And the small Dutch field army, which was quite sufficíout to warn the Germans away from Limburg, le considered by no meaus sufficient to resist a determined Gorman attack.
Popular consciousness of this has grown so strong that a great number of burgomasters In Southern Holland the presum- ably exposed territory-have form- al a committee to press upon the Government the folly of further reductions in the Army Budget.
FORESAW DANGER.
And when they address the grim Premier of Holland on this subject, by a curious turn of the wheel In Dutch affairs, they address the one mian in the country who was responsible in 1911 for the complete reversal of the Dutch plans for defending their neutrality-the one who foresaw the probable Invasion of Limburg and.
man
Was
catax-arms
Ľ
A 'million persons gathared at Liverpool when H. M: this King, accompanied by the Queen, opened the great Marasy Tusukly longert underwater tube in the world, connecting Liverpool skil
I said to him
-because
it leaves you with a clearer head..!
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BORN 1820. STILL COING STRONG..!
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