ULTIMATUM TO HOLLAND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 163, 15 August 1914, Page 9

ULTIMATUM TO HOLLAND.

FRANCE MAY DECLARE WAR. IF GERMANS ARE GRANTED REFL T GE. ' (Received Axigiist, 15, - 8.55 a.m.) LONfip&T August 14. The "Dally Chronicle V' Amsterdam i«rresponde'ht says that France; has sent an ultimatum to Holland thai if Germans are,allowed to talce refuge in Holland, as some have already done, France ■will-declare war-on-Holland. The Dutch Government is hurrying troops to the southern frontier to prevent retreating Germans entering Dutch • liinuburg.

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and kicked, and forced to uncover his head and bow before the statue of Germairia. In the operations around Liege the Belgians have taken two thousand prisoners. Having insufficient accommodation they asked the French to take charge of them. The French captured fifteen hundred prisoners in other parts of the frontier. It is reported that a French aviator, reconnoitring in Lorraine, was puTseud by two larger German machines, carrying three armed men. After an exciting chase the Frenchman escaped. A German aviator carrying the French flag flew over Vesoul and Lure, near Beifort. He dropped bombs but the damage was not important. He was put to flight by a volley from gendarmes.