The Hague, Mar. 9.
A Royal Decree is in preparation to extend the state of siege in Holland to a wider area, it was announced in the Chamber last night by the Muister of Defence, It-Colonel A. Q. H. Dijxhoorn.
A state of siege was proclaimed in certain frontier and "inundation" zones last November, To combat spying, Colonel Dijxhoorn threatened to plunge the whole of Holland into a state of siege.
The secret servite, police, and officials of the Department of Justice i were, he said, already actively engaged in working against foreign agents.—
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