THE DUTCH FRONTIER,

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14857, 3 September 1918, Page 5

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.