The Hague, Dec. 7.
A semi-official announcement, replying to a German statement suggesting that Holland should arm her merchantmen in order to protect her trade against the British decision te seize German exports, was published here today.
The announcement expresses surprise that Holland alone was speci-tically mentioned, and declares that "Holland's neutrality does not impose any obligation to resist by force the Anglo-French measures of war.
"Nor does Holland intend to resist the action of U-boats and the unreal sonably long detention by German authorities of Dutch timber vessels Motive power replaced by Diesel been bought from from the Baltic," the announcement adds,—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.