Show HOLLAND HIT t HARD BY WAR impression she was enriched by it dispelled by figures COST COUNTRY all of her he industries suffered and much we waa sunk in certain for sign eign bonds suffered most of any neutral new ew I 1 arlt impre lorus that hol hoi lind becam enriched by the war are comb combated in a pamphlet issued hv D 7 steyn 11 pure e acting consul general for tile netherlands showing that by reason moso of its ita geographical and economic position tile the tor pr assure ure and rill e 11 offsets effects of tile the war ar were mom probably more mom serious felt there them than la in any other neutral country corta tev on ga the budia mainland and the pamphlet pamp hlat libet sai a holland 1111 and entirely b led ed by territory in ID the lie hands bandi of one of the belligerents whilo the it nulls sea at limin alian any other waterway was As pull pert of town la alio tu war n lone abo As the tl prosperity Pa of I 1 holland A and depond upon international Intel national intercourse fild irles were choked larse area muli were imposed d in I 1 the t maintenance of a dele defensive naive army or thele was growing unemployment and tile the people generally geier go mily ally affard shipping shrinks shrink rh in 1913 shipping in the apoita pot is of nol 1701 land amounted to nt at a t tons tona blatt volume hk to tons to in 1918 toone tn in di de crewed from fr 2 57 slope in 1 1913 to 39 in DIS 1918 and in Rt tod 1185 to 1181 1191 ship itaho tonnage dropped dropp pil from in IJU 1913 to 1 in 1918 dutch trade became on en t rely zed owing to I 1 eions enforce d by bell import duties in an 1813 1913 to a in 1918 1018 they were mere about 3 ON all and d domestic trade Bufter rd od by tile the induction individuals made excess here and there ing areal ft aroi of the newt rich but they thild at the cot of an hed country try and these profits old be tile ti loss ills or of ats IS tons tona ot of shilling alitt pin bopre twi 2238 22 38 per reat of if the tau adlet of 1013 1913 lee large profit bronts cn annie ie agriculture i in clay soil boll 1 in the f first years tol of tile the war slowly soil could not be ba cuba atad nt owing to lack ot of fertilizers fertilizer x bad the lolling of rye formerly used as fodder caused sels aeilous man tion in ill the number or of cattle it was noce necessary ev to kill ff the maller species of live tk 1 in order to sae A food for file the more are valuable species pic war condi coall eions proved favorable to the tilh fisheries os 1 in wild periods at other the it it that I 1 industry ry was as too loomed ad to pinc adus w it inactivity ity A As in many iny y as billing bout boats were nor sunk and oil many fiher lii hermen nom perish pd dutch holdings of foreign I 1 all were affected I 1 in the lle nominal I 1 worth of R but bonds bonda held in he 1101 land amounted to 36 M and ad dit lonal I 1 1 interest lu in R russia rin in represented rl A lalue of all of which w aich way may bo b considered lost int losses on do securities of control europe epaul especially ally la in hungary hargary vere mem very large owing to the limitation of fin quote III by the allied Imo governments memento many any of if the dutch ind industries tries could work only under heavily matric restricted ted capacity it neat nax ext extremely remol difficult to obtain WJ raw materials coal oils age anil and other articles article ow mhd to tile the industries lite had to re shut east down for or berving periods dix their malov mp lov thy the national committee ot of paid out from ang angut to 1911 to december 1918 toward tow w rd ib the aport of parlors wade in diver by the war or in the same pot 1001 the government allocated 11 offic avd OvIl of tile food appl and 11 to arfst let tile atie needy hoody and to combat unemployment cannot bo be expressed 1 in figures figure connected with kes keep lug ine order arms anus all 11 the able bodied pa part t of the male population for tat four yer years takone many of bliem from thel their or their regular productive work ran can not be espi essed ed in figures the most important sit all we ele item was that tha of the cost at of mobilization diew which amounted amount pd A at the end ad of 1918 to bringing than atie government nt acnam pe due to the ww war 10 a total of nearly nan raided hy by rg direct to taxes s and ad wa ani A oh b balod bv be bonns A additional art I 1 din le hae already ab and the debt inevitably be inarea increased ed to pay ot off the tha original lo 10 loans as in from twenty to in 0 live tears lerat As A fl taxes per copits must mim lie raised to bout about 2148 2348 annually a an borca A t 18 pv pe compared with I 1 |