HOLLAND'S PLIGHT.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1917, Page 3

HOLLAND'S PLIGHT.

(Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 25

The United Press correspondent at The Hague interviewed Van Dor Lmdcii, Premier of tho Netherlands, who said that America withholds food stuffs and raw materials. Consequently we arc breadless and suffering most seriously from unemployment. Can you wonder that wo resent America’s attitude. We have given guarantees tlu.t

imported cereals will not be re-exported though our own dire requirements are the best guarantee.

Received this day at 2.36 p.m.,) LONDON. Nov. 25th. Holland exports t« Germany some dairy and agricultral products-, a s compensation for coal, iron, potash and chemical products received from Germany, but these, were offered to both belligerents in equal proportion. This is the only possible policy for a neutral country, wanting friendly relations with her neighbours and needing them owing to her geographical position and economic structure. Our exports t« Germany are so small compared with Germany’s population, that I cannot understand the talk of Holland feeding Germany. I don’t believe America wants us to break our commercial relations with Germany, thus forcing Holland into a onesided economic policy and killing the vital conditions of independence. 1 believe this explanation will be satisfactory. I merely ask that Holland to be treated according to the pri n oiples of America wants to prevail among nations.