The Archive · 1914

DUTCH NEUTRALITY

A lending English review recently published an article advocating the purchase of the Dutch Province of Zeeland and its transferlence to Belgium, a proposal which roused considerable indignation 10 Holland. In connexion therewith a correspondent sends us a translation of an official communique! received by leading Dutch newspapers from the British Legation at the Hague. The communique states that "H. M. Minister, having called the attention of his government to this article, has been directed by Sir Edward Grey to declare most emphatically that the foolish ideas which it contains in no wise represent the views of she

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