EMBARGO ON HOLLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 246, 15 October 1917, Page 5

EMBARGO ON HOLLAND.

TRANSMISSION OF MATERIAL TOR CONCRETE FIELD WORKS. LONDON, October 14. Lord Robert Cecil' (Under Secretary to the Foreign Office), commenting upon the British embargo upon the Dutch transmission of German sand, gravel, and metal through her territory, declared that the question was most serious. He had just returned from the western front. Undoubtedly the Hermans were using those materials in vast quantities for the construction of concrete trenches and "pill-bpxes." Replying to the Dutch contention that the Germans were using these materials for road making, Lord Robert Cecil emphasised the probability that the Germans were satisfying their civil requirements with materials obtained from Belgium itself, enabling the imported materials to be used for military purposes, this fact justifying the stoppage of cable communication.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) AGREEMENT WITH BRITAIN BROKEN. (Received 5.35 a.m ) LONDON, October 14. Holland agreed to stop the transmission of German concrete material from August 15 till early in 191 S. Later she decided, without Britain's assent, to continue till November 15. and then stop till the midle of March. Tho alteration was professedly made because of the prospect of interference with transport by frosts earlier in 1918.—(A. and N.Z.) SHIPPING TO ENGLAND STOPPED. (Received 1.45 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, October 14. According to the. newspaper "Maasbode," in consequence of the Anglo-Dutch difference, all Dutch shipping to England has been stopped.—(Admiralty, per Wireless Press.)