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Cause of the general rejoicing and the Marken gloom was the same: Holland remade her geography last week with the closing of the last gap in an 18-mi. dike between Wieringen and Friesland, thus putting an end to the famed Zuyder Zee. Some 500,000 acres of rich farmland will be reclaimed from the sea bottom when pumping operations are completed. The rest will make an inland lake (one-third the size of the original Zuyder Zee), to be known from now on as Ijsselmeer, in which the former fishing fleets of Volendam and Marken will be marooned...
...little island in the Zuyder Zee five men arose before the break of day and after due preparations crossed over to the mainland at four o'clock. Here two automobiles were waiting, one was filled with luggage, the other was empty. A tall, well-groomed and self-possessed middle-aged man wearing a long gray tweed overcoat motioned to his servant to enter the luggage car; he entered the empty car and sat behind the steering wheel, and then motioned to the remaining three men to take their seats. One minute later both automobiles were carrying Friedrich Wilhelm...