DUTCH RESISTANCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1940, Page 8

DUTCH RESISTANCE

\ • I TO GERMAN EFFORTS. HATRED FOR INVADERS. [by CABLE —PRESS AS&N. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, June .12. “The Times” says that information reaching London indicates that the people of Holland are sullenly resisting all German attempts to appease the general feeling of hatred and anger. The Germans and Dutch traitors are urging the people to start rebuilding for a new future, but no definition is forthcoming .to show whether this future will be worth the smallest exertion by the subjugated Dutch. . . „ The Germans have a “big stick tor Dutch resisting their blandishments. A few thousand Dutch prisoners of war have been sent back to . their own country, but more are retained in German camps as hostages. German attempts to employ demobilised Dutch soldiers in the agricultural industries are failing because the landowners are refusing to take'additional labour as transport is lacking for their produce. The harvest is rotting in the fields. Dutch stubbornness, courage, and love of freedom are showing between the lines in the statements, broadcasts, and articles of Queen Wilhelmina's loyal subjects. PRINCESS JULIANA. According to a London Sunday newspaper, Queen Wilhelmina went to England because Princess Juliana is expecting another baby. That is stated to be the real reason why the Queen was persuaded to leave Holland rather than remain to lead her people in the fight against the invader. Princess Juliana would not hear of leaving her mother to face the peril alone in Holland, so in the circumstances the Queen agreed to go with her daughter to England. Princess Juliana has arrived in Canada. It is interesting to note that Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, who with her husband will take up residence in Canada, is a cousin of Queen Wilhelmina, her mother, the Duchess of Albany, having been a sister of Queen Emma of Holland, Princess Juliana’s grandmother.