THAT RETREAT TO HOLLAND
BRITISH TROOPS MISLED BY THE MIST fficc. October 18, 4.40 p.m.) London, October 17. ' Tho "Times" correspondent in Northern France reports that conversations with Belgian officers 6how. that the internmont of British troops' (in Holland, after tho retreat, from Antwerp} was due to their crossing the frontier during a misty night, the re'Biilt of'an unfortunate topographical mistake.' The move was not directed by any military reasons. The| troops could have withdrawn again into trie Belgian territory' without tho. Germans observing them, but British love of fairplay prevailed.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2284, 19 October 1914, Page 6
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91THAT RETREAT TO HOLLAND Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2284, 19 October 1914, Page 6
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