The theory held by some French observers that Germany with these repeated menaces to the Lowlands' borders is playing the game of "Wolf, wolf!" appears to have some foundation, story of the latest menace to the Netherlands and Belgium came to be known, is true. The account as it appeared yesterday morning was to the effect that a German officer, entrusted with the Nazi plans for the proposed onslaught, in a hurry to rejoin his newly-married wife, took an aeroplane to go on his mission instead of travelling by rail. The pilot made a navigational mistake, and was obliged to make a forced landing in Belgium where his passenger was captured with the plans intact upon his person. The Belgian authorities were quickly able to ascertain that the troop movements with which the plans were concerned were actually taking place. Hence the alarm. It reads just a little too plausible, and if the whole affair was not designed to plant these plans on the Belgian authorities it looks remarkably like it. It is thought that by continually raising alarms of this sort, which turn out to have been unjustifed by eventual facts, it is hoped to wear out
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