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PRECAUTIONS IN HOLLAND SHIPPING HELD UP FOR TWELVE HOURS. MACHINE-GUN EMPLACEMENTS. ON QUAYS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 10. Passengers returning from Holland renort that the River Maas was closed to* all shipping for twelve hours yesterday while Dutch warships patrolled the sea approaches to Rotterdam. Officers of freighters declare that mines were laid. Dutch warships, moored at quays at the Hook of Holland, played searchlights on all incoming ships. Soldiers were on duty in sand-bagged machine-gun emplacements on the quayside. Only those authorised were allowed to approach the quays.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1939, Page 6
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98GUARDED SEAWAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1939, Page 6
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