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They Swept The Sea

To-day, with Holland threatened by invasion, the "Telegraph" tells the story of the tiny strange country "formed of the alluvial deposits of two rivers," which through the ages has fought against man and nature. Once it ruled the commercial world.

HE low town of Ley- den, in the low, windmill-starred country of Holland, lay ringed by lines of swarthy Spaniards, whose spiked beards jutted beneath their curved steel helmets. One of them jested bitterly.

"So you are starving! You are eating dogs and cats!" The Stubbs Rd. Phones: 27778-9. Dutch sentinel.

the wall grinned sourly. The jest struck truth. But he defied the Spaniard as the Dutch have always defled the power that menneed them, from the nations that oppressed them to the new that threatened to engulf them. back or a cat new, you shall !"Ayel And while you hear a dog know that Leyden still stands

A Look Through The Telegraph".

50 YEARS ACO

Nov. 11, 1889.

untaken!

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For a year Leyden had en- dured the siege: from October, 1573, to October, 1574,

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William of Orango broke the power of France—to bo... rolled... up by Marlborough and his Dutch and German allies in the opening of the eighteenth cen- tury. Dutch tactics were always Fabian: delay, war of attrition, hazarding nothing until Mari- borough sent a letter of apology to the French commander to ex- plain that they had been per- mitted to escape only owing to the prudence of the Dutch, who “ Desiderius Erasmus raised the England, commercially men- dared not risk an assault, banner of free thought, clear aced, passed a Navigation Act.

Glowing like a jowal through through Tromp, after a victory, nailed a the fury of the seventeenth Europe preaching it in his flight, broom to his mast in token that thought, Hals blossomed forth into the he had awept the English from Century burned in Holland the grand vigour of paint and Ver the English Scae, Monk, philosophy of Spinoza: the nicer tempered it to coolness that soldier on ship-board, disproved Jewish lens-grinder who was still cun thrill and chill at once. the boast, routed his fleet and called both "Atheist" and "God- Rembrandt painted age and killed the Admiral, Thence intoxicated"; who fought a law- youth with equal intensity and forward, the Dutch monopoly gult to gain a pension and, when.

And

fled

It is rumoured in Constantinople that garrison had already fought a laid on his background ng dark was broken and the carrying he won it, gave the award to his

the Czar has accepted the Sultan'a in- vitation to visit Constantinople in the

Spring,

The Emperor of Germany visited the

forlorn hope, against the might of Spain and the spite of Alba. Their ancestors had known the rule of Counts of Hainault,

as his country's history.

England, independent Hol- land's first ally, found that by locker.

trade came to England.

Holland still had a shot in her opponent.

The Protector could

Dutch troops were dragged

yenalx of the British fleet at Athens. Counts of the House of Avesnes. freeing the Dutch she had crip- protect no longer: he was dead. into the eighteenth century wars..

Junching with Admiral Hoskyns on

board the Dreadnought, when cord

ally tonated the Britlah Navy.

M. Cuers de Cngnin, the editor of the Cerrier d'Haiphong, taking offence et An extruel from the Daily Press, pub.

the ducal regime of full-blooded, pled herself. The Dutch carried Pepys and treacherous Burgundy, 'the im- perial sway of Austria,

Now they were flung, portion Hinled Independance Tankinois, of the Empire, to Spain: arid, demanded an apology from the editor. Romanist Spain, bent on 'mark- was arranged: pistols were chosen br

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the challenged, the terms being one brand, heated in the fires of the shot at twenty-five pacek. The Juel

www fought behind the elladel. The Inquisition.

pistols were loaded on the ground; uni when the triggers were pulled Loth minerd Bro. Each of the combatants. Insisted on having another "go", but the seconds decided gravely that ***

misaire was a fire" and everybody em braced. This duel, like most of these ridiculous encounters nowadays, proved, a completa Özale..

H.M.S. Rattler. Com. Maitland Dougall, will leave Singapore for long kong upon the arrival at Slugupore of the new gun-boats Pigmy and "Plover, which are shortly expected. The Plover will necompany the Rattler to Hongk and the Pigmy will renal in Singa pore to take the place of the Rattler. The two new gun-boats are of what

is called the Pigeon class. The Pigmy

ness and the latter at Pembroke.

The hammer-blows with which Luther nailed his theses to the church of Wittenburg had struck un echo in the dour Flemish hearts. Commercial Holland (to be satirised 300 years later in Canning's verse:

"In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch

Is offering too little and

asking too much")

FACTS

James of

The Netherlands (Holland) to-day: Population &392,000. Overseas population (Dutch East and West Indies) 60,697,000. Area 13,203 square miles. Overseas area 790,000 square miles. Largest town, Amsterdam (781,660). Capital, The Hague (477,472). Monarchy, constitutional and hereditary. Home Army, all ranks, 17,000

men. Overseas Army 33,000.

York

Holland and Britain guaranteed.

the "Pragmatle Sanction"-the abolition of the Salic Law, under which no woman could inherit a crown--to permit Maria Theresa. to rule Austria-Hungary,

And Dutchmen had to make. good their pledge with their blood when Frederick the Great, another guarantor, stretched out his greedy Hohenzollern hand from Brandenburg and gained Silesia at the price of his honour.

Holland allied with Catherine of Russia

all the castern trade from Lisbon (James II) had not yet built up England

Great against until England

to North Europe. The Dutch the British Navy. And while mopped up" her fleet. And, in and a virtual monopoly of the Charles II and his ladies 1795, a squadron of French and Castlemain, Gwynne, do Que cuirassiers galloped over the ice

Spice"Java

and

and Plover are quite new, having been Baw in the Reformation not only "Isles of Borneo. The rouaille chased a moth in the launched in 1888. the former at Sheera rallying cry from the yoke of Sumatra

the Spain imposed with military Dutch had a colony on 25 YEARS ACO

valour by Don John of Austria American seaboard-New Ams. Nov. 11, 14. or with military cruelty by the terdam. The Dutch, stirring Yesterday morning the Emden uppear- ed near the Cocos Islands as a four-Duke of Alba, but a source of with the birth of Royalism-to funnelled ship-one funnel being of profit from looted monasteries. come to fruition in the House of

Orange crew having even as did the Tudors,

1813 dared In canvas. Some of her landed, captured and destroyed 'Instru-

criticise the English Regicides. ments connected with the wireless -in- tallation. Later, H.M.A.8. Sydnor

And the Dutch East and West

Spain strove to hold the re- appeared and an engagement took place volting Netherlands. Under the

between the two vessels In' which tho

J

to

Emden last two funnels and mast, genius of William the Silent, the froin manis coined florins dont aids that the Sydney was scarenly the street with Flemish simpli- raids, and slaves. and caught fire matern. Our correspon great Stadholder who strolled in from unips, silks, spices, ships, touched, and that her chaunities were city in an age of pomp, they had

only a killed and 16 wounded. The

Emden's first shot carried away one of won precarious successes. the Sydney' rango Anders.

Inland and was ourat out,

The Emden ran ashore un Kesling But Leyden was the key of The captain the campaign. And Leyden was of the Sydney describes her like to fall, for all the spirit of shambles." He could only see thirty

men, out of a complement of three hun her defenders.

dred aboard. The Emden had comman-

deered two months' supply of stores.) But as England found Nep-

Mr. Winston Churehlil has telegraph-

d to L.M.A.B. Sydney and to the Com-tune for ally against Spain, Hol- monwealth Navy Bent, his warmast land also turned to the sen. Her congratulations on the brilliant entry patriot left wing, the Beggars of of the Australian Navy into the war and the signal service rendered to the the Sea, cut the dikes which atlied ease.

alone saved Holland from in- undation-and washed the Koenigsberg has been imprisoned in the Spainiards out, bringing on the Rugi river, German Enat Africa, by same waves food ships to the the sinking of some colliera nt the river-mouth.

very walls of the famished city.

It slated that the German cruiser)

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Earl Kitchener has telegraphed to the As the sea swept in, Holland, Japanese War Minister his warmest the Independent State, was born. congratulations on the fall of Taingtau, adding that the British Army is proud] to be associated with its galiani Japa- nomo comrades in this enterprise..

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For elghty years Holland

The War Ofice has been repreached (which was only one of the 17 with failure to stimulate recruiting by provinces of the Netherlands means of parades, but the appearance which are to-day Holland and of the Colonial troeps in the Lord Belgium) fought Spain. Only effect. A fresh loom in recruiting at the end of the Thirty Years" started yesterday. Another deterrent War was her frontier recognised. to recruiting has been removed by the announcement of substantial increnses

The var was shot with

Mayor's Bhow has had an immediato.

in the war. or dying within seven yearn.

in the allowances to the widows and heroism, and graced between children of soldiers and sailors killed battles with beauty. Philip The minimum for family of five is Sidney died at Zutphen, giving jane pound per week,

his fast drop of water to a wounded private, soldier, with

10 YEARS AGO

It is learned that the Nanking Eighth the words "Thy need is greater

Division which left/fiankow, for- ikonu

and Saturday, is under orders to proceed than mina, Gerard, the French.. at once to Siacheng, where they will man; assassinated William the go straight into the Government frant Silent. John of Loyden, the Rns reinforcing the

Nanking trooph

engaged in the savage battle racing great. Anabaptist, reared his round Mihalen, which is still held short-lived theocratic State. the Kuominchun.

Marshal. Chiang Kai-shok has how Jacobus Armintua raised his practically exhausted all his reserve! voice against Calvanistic fata divisions in sigantic efforts to over Hem whelm the rebuli.

But the Dutch

palace, de Ruyter sailed up the at Helder to capturo such Dutch Medway and burned the British warships as had escaped the

English guns. ships at anchor.

Gallant but unavailing. New fleet, allied with France, was Amsterdam was renamed New wiped out at Camperdown In York for James, And James's 1797, daughter married into the House

Napolean set up his brother

of Orange: that family of

stern, tight-lipped, silent men, Louis, father of the Third who fought hopeless fights so Napoleon, as King in Hollan hopefully that by sheer persist- but after four years claimed Holland as 'French "as it was formed out of the alluvial· deposits of two French rivers." He held it until 1818, and Dutch, troops were victorous in the campaign that culminated in triumph at Waterloo,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

LINE

By Lichty

BiBil

"I still think the neighbours would have taken care of the ferns :16; you took the trouble to ask 'em.

In 1840 Belgium split off. Eight years later, when all Europe seethed with revolution, the King of Holland was the lender of the Dutch Left Wing..."

The unquenchable Dutch spirit still burns to-day. Holland holds a Colonia! Empire of 700,000 square miles-in Dutch Gulana and Malaya-and 60,967,- 000 people.

Holland is rogaining her lancient carrying trade: her air- lines network over Europe. and ploneers of distanco flights aro ranked fifth in bulk in the world.

Holland is still fighting. With Imodern weapons she, the neutral. from 1014 to 1918 and the asylum for the dishonoured descendant of Frederick the Great; wages. coaseless war against the sea; reclaiming land, draining it, and making the brino-soaked desort into fortile ground.

This is the land through which Nazi hordes may seen march;