THE DUTCH FRONTIER,
BELGIAN BARRIER RAH*.
DEFENCE WGEKS ON THE
RHINE,
{Australian and N.Z.^able A"ssociati-cn)
Aen&terdSttSi, August 38- ' Belgians, armed with rifles and sse-1 volvers, rushed an electrified wire bar- j rier on the Dutch frontier in the night jj xiime. They cut && wive while others ij replied to the "fire, of the German sen-ij tries. All escaped. !■
'The German austJiorities are employ-! ing thousands of seventeen-year-old } boys from "Westplialia, Hanover, and! the i-Rhine provinces, aad also Belgians, ' in $h? construction of -defensive works along the Rhine.
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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14857, 3 September 1918, Page 5
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87THE DUTCH FRONTIER, Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14857, 3 September 1918, Page 5
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