GOOD OLD DUTCH.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 October 1915, Page 2

GOOD OLD DUTCH.

A glance at the map will show ttf£> tremendous part that Holland couldi Play, a part so vital that German^ diplomacy is hardly -likely to invoke such a menace. If Holland should join the war she would naturally gi ve immediate passage to a British Army wh lch would march southward and to the rear of all German forces in Belgium' ' 'hat IhTi be<^e gsZ that the diplomacy of the Allies has left no stone unturned to persuade Holland into the struggle, and indeed the temptation to coerce Holland to such a cour S e must h been Holland as a last resort, can always defend herself by opening the dikeV but this is a sort of poetic rather than an actual measure. To open her dikes : would destroy Holland almost as effectually as would a foreign invasion.