The Washington times., 1916-06-25
HOTEL IN HOLLAND
IS FULL OF THRILLS
Flushing HosteIry Furnishes
Naval Battle and Air En-.
gagements. for Its Guests.

FLUSHING, June 8 -(by maiD.-The
excitingest, excitedest hotel In tho
world Is the New Zealand, Fiushiug.
Holland.
Anyone can rent q room there, II
there's one to spare: that is. providing
you caro- to pick your way to F1ushtns
across the North sea from England.
among floating mines and with the guns
Of q nearby naval engagement shatter-
RS a good hotel. but half the time
S e Cus ee To-
getting the latest news. You don't
blamo them. either.
The naval con,mandant Of the port Of
Flushing. lives in the hotel. There arc
sailors all about the rlace. running up
and down stairs with messages or dis
patches. Here's the diary Of eighteen
hours at tho New Zealand:
p. m.-Arrival No one to handle
your trunk. because everybody is up on
the roof trying to look across to Zee
bruge. where the British are lombard
ing the Belgian coast.
3 p. m.-Lunch. The waiter: Must
last night. Seven aeppelins S IN Nnsa@a psssea
: nearby here going toward the English
coast. and we saw twenty German
acroplanes over here this morning. And
guns! The firing has been breaking our
windows
Terrible Piece Of Water.
to p. m.-Out OH the sandunes
along the shore OF the North sea--''thc
most terrible piece Of water in tho
Notwithstanding to the guns Of dis
tant naval engagement. watching tho
Sky for Zeps and acroplanes.
Supper and. at 10 p. m. to bed
- "a. m.-Out Of bed and into the mid
Ole OF the floor in one hop. Earthquake Q
ehakinS building. Windows rafting:
guns OF tho British. bombardins the
BELGIAN coast. twenty fve miles away.
4:'S n. m.-Telcphonr rings wildly In
nearby room, CT the Dutch naval com
.rsndcr Of the port OF Flushing. Sailor
wooden stairs.
i:b a. m.-You dress.
Alt a. r,.- Downgtairs on the sidewalk
you fine hotel guests ana hotel help
of the hotel mas Just yelled down that
twenty aeropisnes are in the distance.
Are they German or ally?
Why are they coming over Holland?
Will Holland shoot at them?
4:O a. ni. Yen climb 70 the hotel roof.
The eioplancs have disappeared.
Proves To Be French.
40 n. m-"Here comes an aero
plane!'
4:a a. N. II proves to be French, by
the red. white and blue rings on sts
piancs. u scars over the hotel ana
over You. very low. It's tired. wound
Cd bird. flown in to safety from the
battleground out on the North Sea-
4:35 a. rn.-Ths Dutch machine gums on
tho ships In the harbor cut loose At the
French neroplane. because. 3ust al the
moment they expected II to aiight. IL
suddenly rose into the air again. They
fne at II Just az vigorously as the Ger
mans wnuld. for the Dutch pot at ever,
hying thing that violates their TERRITORY.
unless IL surr,nders.
1888 a. NJ The French flying machine
Burrenders and comes to earth, The
plots alight. One is wounded in the
elbow, not by a Dutch but by a German
bullet. fired an hour before somewhere
on the North Sea. That 10 why the
Frenchmen flew to Holland: they
couldn't have got back to France.
a. m. TIL" Frenchmen have coffee
IN our hotel. whiln the awakened guests
look on.
a. m.-1he two Fronchmen Ieav, IN
the train for TIL" Hague For the re-
-inainder of tho war they will be prison-
ers there Of tho Dutch.
f:05.-Ths hotel guests. who have been
out OF bod and out OF doors since 4
0 clock. disperse to their rooms, some
icr more nicap: others to finish dress-