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Show FIVE AMERICANS ARE DETAINED IN BELGIUM German Authorities Prevent Them From Going to Holland as Reprisal, Re-prisal, Department Believs. WASH1XGTOX, Feb. 1. Five Americans Amer-icans in Belgium have been denied by the German authorities the right to leave that country and go into Holland. The Spanish minister at Brussels sent such information to the American minister min-ister at The Hague, who today telegraphed tele-graphed the state department, inquiry i:ito the detention is being made. The case is the first of its kind reported to the department and it is believed the German authorities in Belgium, under the impresstoi that Germans are being detained in the United States, have taken the action rys a retaliatory measure. |