Holland Takes Measures Against Espionage Hemisphere.
He predicted that the navicert sys~ tem might be extended to the Pacific to prevent supplies from the American Pacific coast reaching Germany via Russia, When the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, was asked at a press conference whether the United States would extend a protectorate over Greenland, he said he knew of no plan to do so. He cited the President's recent description of Greenland as a land of the Western Hemisphere, thereby implying that Greenland comes within the scope of the Monroe Doctrine.—Reuter.
Amsterdam, Apr. 17.
The military authorities have banned a Nazi meeting at Zutphen, Herr Mussert, chief of the Dutch Nazis, was to have spoken on the "end of the Democracies.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Justice has introduced a new law in Parliament dealing with espionage, providing for a penalty of ten years' imprisonment, He also proposed an addition to the penal code providing for ten years' imprisonment for attempted rebellion,—Reuter.
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