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Show w BIG GERMAN ARMY ON ' HOLLANDFRQrJTIER Potent Reason Found fot Failure of Dutch Govern-,ment Govern-,ment to Join U, S. COP73NTTAGKM, via London, Feb. 12, 6:30 p. m. Five German a rmy corps concentrated on the Holland frontier furnish fur-nish a fairly convincing explanation, in default of othor reasons, for ihe failure of the Dutch government to adopt the policy toward Germany recommended by 'reBiderit Wilson on account of the Gorman Gor-man submarine campaign. That German troops were assembling in fairly laree numbers 'n ne vicinity of the Holland border has been the subject sub-ject of gossip in Berlin military circles for .several weeks before Dr. von Bethmann-JTollweg's Bethmann-JTollweg's announcement of the new submarine sub-marine campaign. Their presence there at a time when Germany was talking of peace instead of a policy that would weigh most heavily upon neutral interests was then usually explained as a precautionary precau-tionary measure or even meiely characterized charac-terized as part of a plan for the distribution distrib-ution of strategic reserves for the spring campaign. Such reserves, before the enemy's en-emy's plans and place of attack developed, devel-oped, usually are concentrated at a spot jfl behind the battle front where there are good railway lines for moving them Lr to a menaced point on the front as soon T the location of the opponents main pf fort definitely is established. Accordingly, Accord-ingly, some doubt was raised concerning the latter explanation. Whatever the cause of the cencentra-lion, cencentra-lion, a large force of German troops was on the Holland border when Germany's inauguration of submarine war and President Presi-dent Wilson's appeal to neutral nations to join with America in protecting neutral interests against Germany brought to the foreground the question of Holland's possible pos-sible action in reply to the German campaign. cam-paign. Their bayonets emphasized the economic and political reasons why Hoi- land is unwilling to follow counsel which; it was learned might have drawn the lit- j tie kingdom into the great European war. j Rumors were heard, too, in neutral ; quarters In Berlin before the departure of the Associated Press correspondent , tliat a flaw had been discovered in Holland's Hol-land's strategic scheme of defense against Germany, which, as is known, involves flooding parts of the country in front of the selected first line of defense. According Ac-cording to the reports, it 'had been discovered dis-covered that attempts to flood these districts dis-tricts would lav under water a far greater area than had been contemplated and would throw the general scheme of Holland's Hol-land's defense in confusion. |