A good deal of excitement was caused in Holland at
tho end of last week by strong military preparations. Officers and men on leave were recalled. The Government kept their own counsel and wild rumours spread. It was said, for one thing, that the measures were directed against Germany, since no promise of satisfaction could be obtained for German acts at sea. The Germans, according to their custom, seized the opportunity to 'suggest that . British troops were about to invade Holland, and that this policy had been decided on at the Paris Conference. After forty-eight hours of the excitement the Dutch Government announced that, as large move- ments would no doubt soon be undertaken by the belligerents, Holland was determined to be ready to 'guard her frontiers in ease of need. She had done so early in the war, and would repeat the precaution.
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