HUNGRY EYES ON HOLLAND.
GERMANFS SCHEME TO EXTEND
HER INFLUENCE
' ' LONDON, Slay 13. According to news from Rotterdam, the German Minister at The Hague has, for some time past, been applying pressure to , tlie Dutch Government to gain its consent for a scheme for the estabiishmeiitV by the Vulcan Company,- of a private harbor or works on the bankt; ofv a '.mew waterway, a deep, broad channel whiph gives access to Rotterdam ironi the North Sea. Ostensibly,, tho scheme is merely, a business proposition m whijoh tii* 1 German Government 'takes a benevolent interest. Really it is one' more step m pursuance of" Germany's steady policy of making Hollands subservient to pan-German aggrandisement. The realisation of this plan wpujd, of course, vastly increase the already, .immense commercial and financial ii)fluej).co of Germany ,m,. the Netherlands ■'* aiid would place" German enterprise 'm a highly favorable position to., compete! with the trade of other countries.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13101, 14 June 1913, Page 10
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153HUNGRY EYES ON HOLLAND. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13101, 14 June 1913, Page 10
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