The Cordova daily times., 1917-07-28
HOLLAND REFUGE. FUR ARMY IF
 DESERTERS
CBy Associated Pressl

l THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 2s -Thousands of deserters. mostly from the German army are now swelling the stream of refugees pouring into Holland from adjoining countries. Holland has become a great place of refuge for fugitives fleeing from the terrors of the German front. food hardships or the German military regime.
 So numerous have these war re. fugees become that a weekly periodi- cal, called "The Combat" has been established at Amsterdam to carry on revolutionary Socialist propa. ganda among them. A society of de- serters has been formed in Holland. apparently by German agents in or der to discover the names of deserters and exert pressure on their families to induce them to return to Ger many Returning deserters no longer are shot, but are sent to the front.
 The country is overrun by a small army of spies, persons of both sexes. whose work is to spy into Dutch af- fairs, to spy upon the belligerents and sometimes to spy upon one another.
 These refugees, deserters and gov ernment agents, added to escaping prisoners of War of virtually eyer' entente nationality, fugitive Poles and other peoples of Eastern Europe. flee ing from forced labor and other evils have swelled the immigration flood until the problem of what disposition to make of these foreigners has be- come acute in Holland.
 There are many decent men among the deserters, who, made desperate by the sufferings and slaughter at the front or rebelling against their gov ernment's system or policy, have shaken the dust of their fatherland from their feet. Quite a number are conyalescent men who were ordered back to the front great number are undesirables, to whom many crimes are attributed Some become snug glers, but wholesale punishment from the frontier regions now virtually has closed this profession to them. Police control of them is inadequate.
 Proud of its traditional hospitality, Holland opened it's frontiers freely to all corners, but public opinion and the government has discovered that there are formidable dangers inherent in this aggregation of immigrants,
 What might not happen, Hollanders often ask themselves, if Holland, sud denly became involved in the war with all these vast numbers of for eigners spread all over the country many of them of the worst or at least of the most doubtful character?
 Infectious disease repeatedly has been introduced. The great axodas of Belgians brought typhus and dysen- tery; Austro-Hungarian emigrants from Galieia, on their way to join relatives In America, and suspected smugglers from that province, brought smallpox; escaped prisoners of war from infected German camps and others occasionally introduced dis eases like spotted fever and mensn- gitis. In each case the disease was quickly checked.
 Now, however, smallpox has real hold in parts of Germany, as we'll as in countries farther east. and it Is pointed out how easily this and other scourges may be brought across tle frontier.
 The prime minister. Cort van der Linden, announced a few days aao that the increased influx, and the bodily condition of persons entering the country, had necessitated more drastic sanitary measures. Barraoks are to be erected at five different points of the frontier, where all Ger mans entering the country, of whom the great majority are deserters, Will