GERMAN SCHEMES TO INVADE HOLLAND

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3019, 5 March 1917, Page 5

GERMAN SCHEMES TO INVADE HOLLAND

CASTING COVETOUS EYES ON DUTCH FOODSTUFFS AND GOLD "/.

(Rcc, March 4, 5.5 p.m.)

i■. n ■ r • ■ j-. rj, ~.„ ~ London, March 3. Lieut. Puaux, ex-foreign editor of the "Temps," uow on the staff of General I'och, makes extraordinary revelations of Gorman schemes of invasion of, Holland. He states that on August 2, 1914, Germany informed Britain that eighty French officers, disguised as .Prussians, attempted to cross the DutchGerman frontier in motor-cars. This would be a fabricated order to justify Gorman violation of Holland's neutrality on the ground that Holland was ail accomplice of au imaginary raid. The plan for the invasion of Holland was abandoned then beoauso Germany soon had her hanis full iu Belgium and too few submarines to prevonfc Britain assisting Holland. Subsequently Germany circulated iu Holland a rumcVr of an impending British landing, and concentrated troops on the Dutch frontier. This manoeuvre also-failed, as Holland was convinced tho Allies did not threaten her neutrality, so Germany is now attempting to goad Holland into war with a view to seizing Dutch foodstuffs, the millions of gold inDutoh banks, and the Dutch coast in order to provide new submarine bases in the event of Zoebrugge becoming untenable— Renter.