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Show BRITISH BLOCK BRUGES CANAL 1 d .t st II HOLLAND ON VERGE OF WAR DUTCH FACING TROUBLE ! Relations With Germany Strained to Breaking Point. KAISER'S ULTIMATUM Would Not Hesitate to Invade Holland in Order to Win. THE HAGUE. April 2Z The Duteh cabinet met yesterday in extraordinary extraordi-nary session. The British foreign office, according to ihe London Daily News, has learned thai the relations between Holland i and Germany are very strained. The di.-putr- about the supply of gravel from Holland to Germany was said to have been the cause. Official and diplomatic dip-lomatic circles in London were reported re-ported to look upon the situation with uneasiness. Rumors were that some-'thing some-'thing in the nature of an ultimatum had been delivered to Holland by Germany. Ger-many. The Handelsblad of Amsterdam on Monday expressed the beitef that Ger-j Ger-j man would not hesitate to use coui munication through Holland even at the risk of war if she believed that b doing so victory could be obtained on the western front. It was reported recently that Ger-I Ger-I many looked vith disfavor upon Hol-I Hol-I land's attitude toward the seizure by I the United States and Great Britain of Dutch tonnage in American and British Brit-ish ports. EXPECTED TO DECLARE WAR. LONDON, April 23. Uruguay and l Argentina are expected to declare war against Germany at an early date, according ac-cording to Berlin advices forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph's correspondent correspond-ent at Amsterdam. The German newspapers news-papers have been notified to prepare the public for this development, he adds. Uruguay Long Hostile. Uruguay's relations with German ' are known to have been tense foi some time. On April 12 a Montevideo Monte-video dispatch said that Uruguay had asked Berlin through Switzerland it I Germany considered that a state of I war existed with the Uruguayan re- public "as stated by the commander of a submarine who captured a Uruguayan Uru-guayan military mission bound for France." If the reply should be in the affirmative it was announced Uruguay I would declare a state of war. Uruguay definitely broke diplomatic ; relations "with Germany by act of congress con-gress on October 7 last, following the Luxburg incident. Passports wen-handed wen-handed to the German minister and the neutrality rule was waived as to the entente allies. The attitude of Uruguay toward the United States as a belligerent had previously been markedly sympathetic. Argentina On Verge of Break. Argentina has been apparently on the verge of a break in relations witn Germany several times since the publication pub-lication last summer of the documents in which Count von Luxburg. German diplomatic representative at Buenos Aires, advised the Berlin foreign of-lice of-lice among other things that a certain cer-tain Argentine merchant vessel should I "be sunk without trace" There has, Us a matter of fact, been little diplo uiatic communication between Buenos Aires and Berlin in this period as Luxburg was handed his passports and onlv remained in Argentina -because bis health was represented to require treatment in sanitarium, v Anti-German Sentiment Grows. Vijspatches from Buenos Aires in February indicated a growing tenseness tense-ness in general anti-German sentiment. senti-ment. Since1 then demonstrations have been held in the Argentinian capital In celebration of the entry ot iho United States into the war and the Uruguayan authorities have made it known that Argentina has agreed to place its armed forces at Uruguay's ( Continued on Page S I 1 h"1 DUTCH FACING TROUBLE (Continued from page 1 ) disposal if Uruguay's northern provinces prov-inces were threatened by a German uprising in southern Brazil. Three - Cornered Fight. WASHINGTON, April 23. The dispute dis-pute between Germany and Holland over gravel shipments dispatch) - to the state department today indicate, is far from a settlement. The controversy contro-versy is a three-cornered one, involving involv-ing Great Britain also. Last November Great Britain withdrew with-drew cable facilities from Holland after af-ter the Dutch had agreed to permit the transit of sand and gravel from Holland into occupied Belgium. In February caftle facilities were restored when ii appeared the sand and gravi I question was about to be settled as B result oi the conciliatory attitude Germany Ger-many had taken |