GENERAL NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 79, 7 April 1916, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

DUTCH PREPARATIONS. CH ISIS WITH (SKRMANY. LONDON, April 2. Delayed messages from Rotterdam, bearing Friday's <latf. state that Holland is calmly waiting developments. Military preparations are, general, and the Government lias taken over control of tlie railways. Ninety-nine out of 100 Dutchmen attribute the crisis to the 'torpedoing of the Tuliantia and the F'alembaiig. it is believed that there has been an important interchange of Notes between Holland and Germany, but a minority insist tliut the crisis is not with Germany. The newspaper .Waasbode (a Roman Catholic journal published at Rotterdam) significantly remarks that, although every official indication is wanting, it believes that there is a connection between the conference at Paris and the measures announced to-dav. The fact that the States-General (the Netherlands Parliament! has no! been immediately summoned is the best sign that the situation is not dangerous. HUNS' PLAUSIBLE REASON. LONDON', April 3. The Times' Amsterdam correspondent states thai the statement that the crisis in Holland is due to the Allies desiring to land troops in iluliaud is without foundation. That report originated in Germany. Anglo-Dutch relations, lie declares, are satisfactory, 1