SON OF DR. VAN DER PLAS
REPORTED EXECUTION BY GERMANS (P.A.) . WELLINGTON, June 4, The Netherlands Consul-General (Mr M. F. Vigeveno) advises that - among the names received by the • t ) Netherlands Government in London or numerous Dutchmen executed by the Germans in the first half of May, i* that of Charles Olke van der PIBV son of Dr. Charles O. van der Plas,. chairman of the Netherlands Inm®* Commission for Australia and New • Zealand at Melbourne. With fellow students of the old Uni- , versity of Delft, he had taken part m breaking up railways and had committed other acts of sabotage a S al ?f" the German occupation forces, wr which he and many of his friends had paid with their lives. . i ’ Dr. van der Plas will be remembered in New Zealand as leader of the Netherlands delegation at the Tasman tercentennial celebrations last u* cember. ■
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23966, 5 June 1943, Page 4
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