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Show THREAT OF MURDER. It is said that warnings similar to those issued before the Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk have been handed to the 2000 passengers now waiting at Rotterdam to take passage on the Nieuw Amsterdam for the United States. German threats have prevented the big Holland-American liner from sailing for several days, and we do not suppose many of the men and women wo-men who have engaged passage would now go abroad and take their chances of being sent to a watery grave, even if the ship should get up steam and leave the harbor on her voyage, knowing full well that the' Germans are so steeped in the most horrible crimes that they would not hesitate to slaughter any number of noncombatants, women and children included, in order to strike terror into the hearts of those who refuse to obey the commands of the monster of iniquity who now rules the Teutonic races and is attempting world dominion. 'The Dutch government is powerless, for resentment on their part would mean invasion and ruination. There is some consolation for the burghers, however, in the thought that after the war there will be no fear of Germany anywhere in the world and the smaller nations of northern Europe will no longer be kept in a state of alarm lest their territories be annexed and their citizens put to the sword. In the meantime, we do not see any chance for the Nieuw Amsterdam to make the trip to New York. |