THE WAR SCARE IN HOLLAND

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2739, 6 April 1916, Page 5

THE WAR SCARE IN HOLLAND

PUBLIC CURIOSITY AT FEVP PITCH "RUMOURS CREATED BY OFFICIAL SECRECY By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) • . April 4. The Times's ' correspondent at Amsterdam says: "Public curiosity here is at fever .pitch. Everything points to a serious situation. There'have been frequent conferences between.the naval and military authorities and the Government. The Stock Exchange is weak, but not p.inioetricken, indicating tliat there is no immediate crisis, but that financiers' are as ignorant of the cause of the crisis as the public. ■ . "Politicians and members of the National Defence Council declare that they are unaware of the cause for alarm. The extraordinary secrecy being shown is responsible for the wildest rumours, but the sanest opinion inclines to the view that the Government's action is due to Germany's submarine warfare." s OPERATIONS ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT ENEMY FLOODED OCT \ DISTINGUISHED GENERAL RETIRES By Telegraph—Press As«oci«tlon-Oopyriglit (Bee. April 5, 9 p.m.) Petrograd, April 4. •A Russian official communique states: "The floods are still rising. We fired on the Germans south of Dvinsk as they ivere evacuating their flooded trenches. , ' "We repulsed an enemy offensive on the Taihvay west of Tarnopol." RETIREMENT OF GENERAL IV AN OFF. / . x Petrograd, April 4. General Ivanoff has retired from the south-western command. His labours bsd impaired his health; hence his resignation. The T6ar in a rescript pays a tribute to General Ivanoff's services. SMYRNA COASTAL" DEFENCES BLOWN TO ATOMS. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) , i 1 London, April 4. _ The "Times" correspondent at Salonika states that the Smyrna coastal defences and forts in the St. George Sanjak frere blown to atoms by a British warship on Friday. The Turkish batteries did not reply.