GERMANY AND HOLLAND.
OMINOUS SIGNS. The Hague, February 10. During a debate, it is stated, General Baron van Heeckeren asked the Foreign Minister to take steps to guarantee the integrity of the Netherlands. He declared that this was necessary because the neighbouring sovereign had intimated a few years ago that he would be obliged to occupy Dutch territory unless Holland defended herself against Britain. The Foreign Minister refused to reply unless Baron van Heeckeren gave the name of the Sovereign. The newspaper Nieuwe Courant says that General Baron Heeckeren, at a secret sitting, informed the Foreign Minister that the Kaiser wrote to Queen Wilhelmina in 1904. A cablegram last Monday stated that, replying in the Dutch Senate to a question by Senator van Heeckeren the Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs, refused to ask for a further declaration of guarantees that Britain and Germany, in case of war would respect the integrity and neutrality of the Netherlands. The Minister added that the integrity of that country was sufficiently guaranteed.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 811, 12 February 1910, Page 3
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168GERMANY AND HOLLAND. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 811, 12 February 1910, Page 3
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