FUTURE OF THE FLEMISH.
NO LEANING TO GERMANY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. [Received 1 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 7. Prominent Flemish political leaders in Holland repudiate tho Flemish deputation which waited on the German Chancellor. They 'declare that when Flanders is free the socalled " Council of Flanders" will cease to exist. Dependence on Germany would be equivalent to loss of language and economic and hereditary freedom. The German proposal to divide Belgium into two provinces will merely draw closer the Belgians and Flemish.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16483, 8 March 1917, Page 8
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