A "deadline" zone has been established at the Dutch frontiers beyond which no one may pass, except along recognized high roads, railroads or water routes, on penalty of being shot, if he refuses to halt.
This is only one of the stringent measures recently adopted to prevent the surreptitious entrance into Holland of persons classed as undesirables, particularly Bolsheviks. The entire borden guard service has been reorganized in connexion with the customs and passport services.
Early this year it became evident that the Russian Soviet leaders, in collusion with Communist. Party chieftains in Holland, had established @ bureau in Amsterdam that was to act as a "world clearing house" for financing and spreading Communist propaganda. The bureau's activities have been considerably curtailed by new laws providing heavy penalties for "'communi eating abroad with the purpose of overthrowing organized Government."
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