BELGIUM AND HOLLAND.
STRAINED RELATIONS. (A. & N.Z.) AMSTERDAM, Feb. 28. Political and military excitement prevails in Holland regarding Belgium's tentorial claims. ■ ' ' The Minister of War (Dr B. C. de Jonge), speaking in Parliament, said: "We will not allow ourselves to be shorn like sheep. We are ready to oppose any attempt to annex any of our teritory." [The principal claims to Dutch territory put forward by Belgium are the cul-de-sac of Dutch Limbourg (of which the chief town is Maestricht) and the southern portion of Zecland, which, in Dutch hands, cuts off Belgium from the mouths of the Scheldt, and makes the approach to Antwerp through Dutch territorial waters. It was through Limbourg that a great portion of the German army escaped in the general retrc-.it. Belgium has offered an adjustment of boundaries to compensate Holland for the annexation of these areas.]
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1578, 5 March 1919, Page 7
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