Omaha daily bee., 1918-04-24
in extraordinary session.
SENDS ULTIMATUM.

SENDS ULTIMATUM.
London, April 23.-Germany in an
u!timatum to Holland, accord ding to
advices received in London, demands
the right of transit not only for
civilian supplies and Of sand and
gravel through Holland, but also for
war materials.
The privilege of transit is asked not
only on the Dutch canals, but also on
the railways.
Germany bias never before made any
claim of the right of transit for
avowed war materials and the yielding
ST Holland on this point would be
equivalent to the abandonment Of
Dutch neutrality.
GERMANY RISKS WAR.
The Handelsblad of Amsterdam on
Monday expressed the belief that Ger.
many would not hesitate to use COM
munication through Holland even at
the risk of war if it believed that by
doing s victory could be obtained on
the western front.
It was reported recently that Ger
many looked with disfavor, upon Hol-
lands attitude toward the seizure by
the United States and Great Britain
of Dutch tonnage in American and
British ports.
GREAT BRITAIN INVOLVED.
~ Washington, April 25.-The dispute
between Germany and Holland over
gravel shipments, dispatches to the
State department today indicate is far
from settlement. The controversy is
three-eornered one, involving Great
Britain also.
Last November Great Britain with
drew cable facilities from Holland
after the Dutch had agreed to permit
the transit of sand and gravel through
Holland into occupied Belgium. In
February cable facilities were restored
when it appeared the sand and gravel
question was about to be settled as
result of the conciliatory attitude
Germany had taken.
Argentina in War.
London, April 25.7-Uruguay and Ar
gentina are expected to declare war
against Germany at an early date, ac-
cording to Berlin advices forwarded
by the Exchange Telegraph's corre-
spondent at Amsterdam. The Ger
man newspapers have been notified to
prepare the public for this develop
ment, he adds.
Uruguay's relations with Germany
are known to have been tense tor
some time. April Il a Montevideo
dispatch said Uruguay had asked Ber-
lin through Switzerland if Germany
considered that state of war ex-
listed between tte ~Uruguayan repub-
lie, 'as stated by the commander OF
submarine who captured
Uruguayan military mission bound
for. France. If the reply should be
in the affirmative, it was announced,
Uruguay would declare state OF
war.
Uruguay definitely broke diplomatic
relations with Germany by act of
congress October 7 last, following the
Luxburg incident. Passports were
handed to the German minister and
the neutrality rule was waived as to
the entente allies, The attitude of
Uruguay toward the United States as
!. belligerent had previously been
markedly sympathetic.
Argentina apparently has been on
the verge of break in relations with
Germany several times since the pub
lication last summer of the docu-
ments in which Count Won Luxburg,
German diplomatic representative at
Buenos Ayres, advised the Berlin
foreign Office, among other things,
that a certain Argentine merchant
vessel should be sunk without trace
Diplomatic Relations Of.
There has, as matter OF fact. been
little dipl1hatic communication be-
tween Buenos Ayres and Berlin in
this period, as Luxburg was handed
his passports and only remained in
Argentina because his health was
represented to require treatment in a
sanitarium.
Dispatches from Buenos Aires in
February indicated a growing tense
ness in relations and growing anti
German sentiment. Since then dem
onstrations have been held in the Ar
gentinian capital in celebration of the
entry of the United States into the
war and the Uruguayan authorities
have made it known that Argentina
has agreed to place its armed forces
at Uruguay's disposal if Uruguay's
northern provinces were threatened
by German uprising in southern
Brazil.