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Show DUTCH TO DEFEND NEUTRALITY Has Half Million Men Under Arms and Will Use Them. Taris Holland will defend the Scheldt river against the designs of the Germans and will march against any assailant of her neutrality, a high Dutch authority declared in an interview inter-view Saturday. "The Netherlands have five hundred hun-dred thousand troops under arms," he said. "Some of the upper classes of the country may be pro-German, but the liberals and democrats are pro-ally. "Nothing can makt Holland abandon her neutrality, for such a step would terminate our independence, especially ' if Germany should be victorious." |