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Show EDITOR SPEAKS OF , HELPLESS HOLLAND Amsterdam Newspaper Launches Campaign Cam-paign for Military Preparedness With Strong Article. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 27. The N leu we Arnsterdammer launches a campaign for military preparedness with a striking editorial edi-torial under the heading "Helpless Holland." Hol-land." It says In part: We must not forget that we are defenseless. de-fenseless. As defenseless as if our army was solely composed of men who refuse to do military service. The army authorities in the beginning be-ginning of the war failed to supply a number of indispensable necessaries, neces-saries, such as heavy guns and antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns. Thus, the whole of our expensive mobilization has been a mere demonstration. No one knows this better than the German general staff. Our army has no guns to oppose the placing of heavy batteries by an enemy, say forty miles from Amsterdam. Am-sterdam. And if we had them we should not know in which direction to fire, for we have no airmen. Neither Nei-ther would there be any supplies to fall back on in Amsterdam. We thus have good reason to be humble to our German neighbor, as humble as Uriah Heep. Our soldiers could only stand and allow -themselves to be shot down. |