Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-10-27
DUTCH APPROACH
BOOZE PROBLEM
FROM NEW ANGLE
Victims of John BarIeycorn
Are Invited to Talk Matters
Over With Consultation Bu-
reau at The Hague,

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Amsterdam, oct. 16-The barbed-
wire boundary between Holland and
her neighbors Germany and belgium.
presents q remarkable picture at some
points where it hisects farmhouses.
towns or even cuts straight across the
platform Of frontier railway stations.
There is one place whore the street
Is divided up the middle. so that
Dutch and German shops face each
other across barriers Of barbed wire
On the farther side Of the street runs
2 street railway, which is in GERMANY
Separated from the tracks by a high
wire fence, there runs down the mill
die Of the street a strip twelve feet
wide which Is neutral ground Then
comes another fence, and the narrow
BIZ Of road and pavement beyond it
are IN Holland AT each street cor
ner are narrow openings TO allow pas
sage from one country to- the other,
senuies of each country sanding
careful guard on either side. It is the
main street OF a busy town. and the
ordinary town life flows back and
forth while little Dutch street boys
talk TO the German street boys
through the meshes Down this street
at the beginning of the war the Dutch
population watched for four days and
nights the German army marching
southwark into Belgium.
All the villages on the frontier lead
contusedly bisected existence, a belt
oi barbed-Wire as il were separating
tnelr heads from their feet. In these
PAGES the work Of the Dutch sentries
IS mainly TO search the people who
pass lest they carry in or out Illicit
merchandise The German guards
afe mostly concerned with keeping a
,ooKout for deserters or able bodied
helglans who seek to escape from
cce'man rule A. a few points the
"erman side Of the barbed wire fence
further protected by wires carrying
eleetrlc current and searchlghts play
night
Contrasts Observed
IN the towns which are biseeted by
W. BOUNDARY line there are two or
u1Iee contrasts which strike the OBJ
server Immediately. All the soldiers
va one side Of the line are. in one type
UNIFORM while in The other half
VI me town there are lust az many
..olulers' but Of course in different
we Or dress The sentry boxes on
g.e sac are rcd, white and blue. on
black '-'''' ~
n. raft OF the town Of Bare-Hertog Is
nvsan, but 1t Is saved from German
oestupauon owing to the fact that It Is
,nIey surrounded by Dutch terri
ella little Belgian island in the
,s'uule Of Holland. There is no need
seulrles here. and there is no wire
Ina w marx the invisible frontier which
. s,rn, trough the middle Of the main
,,ee's' From here to the real 'front.'
W. W. ohe travels over well-paVed
aGgaut"ay which it Dutch. while the
ra tG.l az the side is Belgium At tho
luoinMay station, which is Baarle in
fro.aand' and Wielde in Germany the
t iiyn'ter runs straight through the
~ Vltice and out across the plat
osass on either side. A line Of cob
bori tiIlng IN the floor marks the
a5S S" ray ana the words "Nederland"
oro,. nelgique' are set into the con-
M " on either side on both platforms
es c settries Of the two countries face
50 apart -