HOLLAND’S FIRST LINE.
NOW ICE INSTEAD OF WATER. NO ADVANTAGE TO INVADER. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) ; AMSTERDAM, January 14. Holland’s first line of defence is now ice instead of water. The press publishes an officially-in-spired article quoting expert opinion that the freeze will not. mean that the country’s water defences are impaired. It is stated that,an enemy would be unable to cross the ice in the face of withering fire from an entrenched army. The ice' would not afford protection to attackers, especially as the Dutch have devised means of drawing water from under the ice, which would then be unsupported. HOLLAND IN READINESS. CABINET’S SPECIAL MEETING. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) THE HAGUE, January 14. A special meeting of Cabinet is in progress at which readiness for all eventualities was discussed. » It is announced “in connection with some less favourable symptoms of the international situation the Government lias decided, in order to be prepared for all eventualities, not to grant any periodical leave to the army for the time being.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 80, 15 January 1940, Page 5
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