HOLLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1917, Page 5

HOLLAND.

AMERICA'S EMBARGO. PREMIER RESENTS ATTITUDE. NO RE-EXPORT TO GERMANY. United Press. Received Nov. 26, 5.5 p.m. New York, Nov. -25. The United Press correspondent at The Hague interviewed Br. T. Cort van der Linden (Premier of the Netherlands), who said: "America detains ships of the small neutrals, also withholds foodstuffs and raw materials, consequently we are breadlesa and are suffering most seriously from unemployment. Can you wonder we resent America's attitude? Wo have given guarantees that imported cereals will not be re-exported, tftough' our own dire requirements are the best guarantee. "Holland exports to Germany some dairy and agricultural products as compensation for coal, while iron, potash, and eliemicnl product" ■have been received from Germany, but these are offered to both the belligerents in equal proportions. This is the only possible policy for a neutral country that is wanting friendly relations wilii its neighbors and needing them. Owing to our geographical position" and economic structure, our exports to Germany are "so small compared, with Germany's population that I cannot understand the talk about Holland feeding, Germany. I don't believe America wonts u=i to breJik commercial relations with Germany, thus forcing Holland into a <?ne-sided economic policy «md killing the vital condition of independence. X believe this explanation will be satisfactory. I merely ask that Holland shall bp. treated according to the principles that America wants to nrevail amons the nations."