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Show The Dutch Waterstaat. The supreme defense of Holland must be the "water line" through the heart of it. from tho Zuyder Zee to the Scheldt, created by opening the sluices. Holland has a department of state, with a cabinet minister at the head of it, for her "waterstaat," an untranslatable un-translatable word, which means, practically, prac-tically, the state of all waters from the field-drain in the polders to the Rhine at winter level. They are all linked ap in one scheme in au office at The Hague. London Daily Chronicle. |