GERMAN FRONTIER
Holland Wants To Annex
Strip
Rec. 10.40 a.m. LONDON, May 25.
Holland contemplates the annexation of a 10,000 mile-strip along the entire German frontier to provide room f0r'1,500,000 people and to comprise coal mines and forests, besides agricultural land.
Dr. Kessen, chief of the cultural section of the Netherlands War Dei partment, defining Holland's requirements, said that the annexation was not a kind of imperialism, but a question of necessity in view j of.the fact that two of the Nethi erlands provinces 2tad been devas- ! tated and many towns and villages j destroyed. He added that the an- - nexed area would have to be totallycleansed of Germans. I imiiniM mm iimiimFiMMiiiiiiliiimiiiiiMi in in imimiMwijiii
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 7
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