Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1918 — GERMANY MAY WAR ON DUTCH [ARTICLE]

GERMANY MAY WAR ON DUTCH

Berlin Sees Cause for Attack if Holand Permits Allies to Seize Ships. ENGLAND TO TAKE VESSELS Requisitioning of Neutral’s Tonnage May Result in Unrestricted U-Boat Warfare Being Extended to Holland. London, March 22.——Dispatches from The Hague report that a bx-al news agency says that Germany considers her relations with Holland altered by the attitude of the Dutch government toward the entente and the United States, and publishes a report that the abandonment by the Dutch government of the remaining restrictive clauses in its shipping loan terms would be regarded a s cause for war. U-Dcat War on Holland. Washington. March 22.- —Although officials declined t» put any definite interpretation on dispatches from Th- - Hague, purporting to <e rmany’s attitude toward Holland, it was pointed out that the Dutch government under German threats bad rejected the British-American shipping demands. The belief was general here, however, that the requisitioning of Dutch ships in American and British waters would result in German reprisals «»n Holland, and that unrestricted submarine Warfare would be extended to the Dutch zone. Cecil Favors Seizure. London, March 22. —Lord Robert <’eeil, the—tHHrister of—blockade, announced in the house of commons that the only course of the allies was to exercise their undoubted right and requisition all Dutch shipping in allied ports. The allies considered the Dutch conditions. that the ships remain unarmed and that they should not carry war material, as impossible of acceptance, the minister stated.