Holland.
DUTCH ARMY HOLDS THE FRONTIER. Rotterdam, August IS. The Dutch army is strongly holding the frontier, and there are numerous barbed wire entanglements and barricades on all the roads. Arrangements are ready for flooding the country if combatants in irresistible numbers cross the frontier. Many roads have been cut through and rendered impassable for troops and guns, and houses within the forts’ line of fire have been evacuated and prepared for dynamiting. DISTRESS AT ROTTERDAM London, August 18. There is serious distress among the lightermen at Rotterdam owing to the stoppage of trade. Fifty thousand families are destitute, and relief fund* have been opened. (Continued or. page 2.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 1, 19 August 1914, Page 5
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109Holland. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 1, 19 August 1914, Page 5
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