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Show IE CIBCULATED Hi German Agents in Holland Iff Try to Excite Dutch People 111 Against the Allies. HI The Hague, via. I ondon, April 6. Iff 10 28 p. in. The British government III has aksed the Dutch government to lli call the newspaper Avond Post to ac- Ifrj count Tor spreading a false report of III a British ultimatum to Holland, thus 111 sowing distrust between two friendly ll nations. Ill The newspaper Handelsblad claims II to know that the Avond Issued a re-llj re-llj port inspired by the German consult? consu-lt? late at Amsterdam. The German con-l con-l sul excuses himself, saying that he "had heard it from The Hague." If By M. HOLDERT. If Editor and Proprietor of the Amster- II dam Telegraaf. If Amsterdam, April C Nine-tenths f of the Dutch favor the allies. The If Dutch are essentially calm, but were f excited for a day or two after the l Hinking of the Tubantia. f The German concentration on the It' Beligan frontier has not worried the llij Dutch nation, but any movement If of German troops on the eastern If frontier would be taken seriously. II England would be unable to land If troops in Holland without saying If "choose between ub and Germany." If An increase of duties for the army lr has been, considered, but Germany If has intimated that such action would If be taken as unfriendly. If- Holland perhaps will join the Unit- ll ed States in a protest against Ger- II many's submarine campaign. She has If been unable to take any action in the If case of the Tubantia and Palambong If until proof has been received that the If ships were torpedoed by the Germans. Il London, April 6. The Daily Tele- l graph has received the following from f its Rotterdam correspondent: "Evidence Is accumulating that Ger- f man agents were responsible for tho f rumors that the military measures f taken by the Dutch government were It tho result of the aggressive action ot If, England. The Handelsblad says: f " 'The report published in Amster- f dam Friday regarding an ultimatum If from England was spread by Baonr f von Humboldt, German consul in that If city, v. ho say h6e received the report If from Tho Hague and had every rea- II son to accept it as correct. Later he If heard it was only a matter of possl- II blllties.' f( "I can state definitely that Hoi- I i land has been threatened by no bel- W f Hgerent, nor has any demand been I made upon her. At the same time, f the incident contains a warning to I The best interpretation of the slt- I uation is contained in the following I ;: dispatch from the Rotterdam Cour- . "When the government speaks or its absolute determination to maintain main-tain its neutrality it is a warning to both sides. Assuming that one of the belligerents violates our territory, that will uive the other side no oc-raslon oc-raslon to cross our borders. ' -'The maintenance of our neutrality will be strictly observed toward each -ide with the same force, the same means and the same friendliness, but also with the same anxious alertness. "This irrevocable decision of the government will be approved throughout through-out the country, as It halts all attempt?, at-tempt?, of the belligerents to try by threats, pressure, overtures or sham movements to entice their opponents to iolate our neutrality in order to bring Tho Netherlands in the war on either side." |