DUTCH FEAR AN ATTACK ON FLUSHING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2280, 14 October 1914, Page 5

DUTCH FEAR AN ATTACK ON FLUSHING

TROOPS PREPARING TO RESIST. ■ London, October 12. Mr. ArtHur Kitson writes to the "Morning Post": ''The Dutch believe that the fall of Antwerp will lead to an attack on Flushing, and troops are hurrying <o Flushing, while barricades aro being erected oud trenches dugat Vonloo. Meanwhile Holland remains strictly neutral." Flushing, the Dutch port at the mouth of the Scheldt, is of great strategical importance. It lias a fine harbour and an oxcellont dockyard. Flushing road is accessible to the lnrgost battleships. The Dutch in 1911 began the erection of etrong fortifications at iho port. CHANGED ATTITUDE IN HOLLAND. London,' October 12. Mnny consider the- iipi&uro of Aiit.jrom fur tjw limit pf H.«rr Bcthniauu=HoUivofi'fl statement regards we M:essity, of mvading Belgium.

for the purpose of entering France. The seizure of Antwerp is regarded as tho prelude to the annexation of Belgium, threatening Holland's integrity , and independence. Tho Dutch realise that Germany will not be content that Holland should provide her with an outlet to the sea, and that her commercinl prosperity, founded on the river and canal traffic, would vanish. Tho populace has now an intimate knowledge of the barbarities perpetrated in Belgium. FOOD FOR BELGIUM REFUSED. • Amsterdam, October 12. Field-Marshal von der Goltz, the German Military Governor in Belgium, sent a mission to Holland to ask for foodstuffs for Brussels. The request was refused. The Dutch Government is closely watching all exports. ( The emissaries pleaded that Brussels had no salt, 3'cast, or flour, and scarcely any meat, while the bread was uneatable.