HOLLAND IN SERIOUS MOOD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1553, 20 May 1916, Page 4

HOLLAND IN SERIOUS MOOD.

Describing the feeling in Ho]-' land in March last, the Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Express wrote ; —“By sending the Tubantia and the Palembang to the bottom, Germany has absolutely changed the frame of mind of Holland to the detriment of the Germanic cause,, and while nobody with any sense of public responsibility would have .seriously thought, a week ago, that Holland might, after all, be dragged into the war on the allies’ side, I have heard that possibility discussed and admitted in numerous fpiarters as the only thing that could save Holland from becoming another Turkey or a second Bulgaria in the hands of the Teuton. Holland, needless to say, does not want war. On the contrary, every Hollander, of whatever political party, is determined to live in peace. But he wants to ‘live,’ and the Dutch are now being taught by the lesson of bitter and costly experience that their life, as a nation or as individuals, is not worth living as long as Germany is allowed to act as she has done during these past few weeks. It is felt that if Holland allows these last outrages to go unchecked, more will come, and graver ones, which cannot lie opposed as long as the former were admitted. The sinking of the two Dutch ships has curiously changed the pro-Germanism of even the wildest pro-Germans of Rotterdam and Utrecht. hi Amsterdam and in The Hague the Bodies have lost such little favour as they had hitherto been able to boast, and they are now almost friendless in a country to which thev owe so much.”