Amsterdam, Nov. 13.
Navigation on several streams and canals, among them the Meuse-Waal, Juliana and Wilhelmina Canals, was forbidden by the Government today.
German political quarters here sought this evening to bolster statements of the Reich's peaceful intentions toward the Netherlands by spreading reports about extension of the Siegfried Line along the Belgian and Dutch borders.
The nature of the British and French Notes politely rejecting the Belgian-Dutch offer of mediation angered Nazi leaders, Berlin reports [stated today. The German Note of reply is now expected to be forwarded to The Hague tomorrow. It will allege, informed quarters declared, that the Allies are responsible for prolongation of the war and the impossibility for the Reich to accept the mediation offer, The official German news agency, D.NB., says German political quar- j ters believed the Allied Notes to The Hague and Brussels have "sabotaged from the outset attempts at mediation in harping on the old themes of Anglo-French propaganda." The Allied Notes are "a provocation to the German people and constitute a provocation which reveals that the true aims of the war waged by Britain and France bear upon the destruction of Germany," D.N.B. alleged.
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