Fearful Of Nazi Push

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 266, 10 November 1939, Page 8

Fearful Of Nazi Push

TWO NEUTRALS

Belgium And Holland Hurry Their Defences

FLOODING BEGINS

(I 11 i ted l'ri-M Association.- 1 — Copyright.—Kec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 9. • Holland has evacuated both new "water line" regions preparatory to further flooding. Shipping is banned from the Meuse and Merwede. The Amsterdam correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain states that inundation of the main water defence line across the centre of Holland began late to-night. Buses were requisitioned for evacuation. Trains have been curtaiied from Amsterdam, apparently owing to troop movements. Despite the usual reassuring statements, the Dutch public is more nervous, and high military quarters more active. Movable defences and road obstructions have been fitted in position, while Germany is extending the Siegfried Line at an enormous speed along the Dutch frontier. u . , hil ® ne " tral sources persistently report from Berlin that Hitler has finally chosen a plan of campaign and informed critics expect decisive action within a fortnight, German activity on the oeigo-Dutch frontiers has taken a more ominous turn. Officially it is learned in London that German horse cavalry has gathered on the Dutch frontier, to which petrol and other supplies are being taken in trains. It is pointed out that cavalry is the most useful on sodden terrain. Belgian troops went to the Belgo-Dutch frontier, where the defence work is spending up, states a Brussels message. Belgian mobilisation approaches the peak with 600,000 called up. . . j 7l " Be >B'«n military authorities took over the main roads and dug new trenches along the Albert Canal near Maastricht and the tongue of Holland between Belgium and Germany AH defences along the canal are fully manned and the bridges imned