Flags Flown on Queen Wilhelmina's Birthday London, Sept. 6.
Dutch circles here say that, accor: ing to a statement made to them by a neutral traveller, the majority of Holland's fire engines has been requisitioned for service in the Ruhr district to Sight fires caused by R.A.F. raids.
The Royal Air Force, the traveller declared, had bombed Schipol, the aerodrome of Amsterdam, out of existence. The Germans had moved the engine overhaul-shop and other plant from the aerodrome into the heart of Amsterdam.
The Germans are thus using the citizens of Amsterdam to protect this plant, knowing that the Royal Air Force will not bomb objectives if it constitutes a danger to the civilian population This observer stated that passive resistance in Holland continues. German officials and military leaders were treated as if they were not there. The Dutch, he claimed, pretend to unde stand no German, Street names ha slipped their mind, they are just deaf and dumb.
"The Germans have taken a number of prisoners, but this has not made the slightest difference to the Dutch attitude," the traveller concluded.
Reuter.
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