DEATH SENTENCES
PASSED ON EIGHTEEN DUTCHMEN CHARGES OF ASSISTING BRITISH PLANES. ALLEGATIONS OF SABOTAGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day .12.40 p.m.) BERLIN, March 6. Allegations that a Dutch semi-mili-tary organisation .planned to co-operate with a British invading force, signalled to the R.A.F. flying over Holland at night time was made by a prosecutor at a German court martial in Amsterdam, which sentenced to death eighteen members of the organisation. It was further alleged that the accused served cocktails containing sulphuric acid to German soldiers, that several soldiers were pushed into a canal and drowned or were the victims of snipers. The president of the court announced that in other cases listed, an unspecified number of Dutch were under arrest. TROUBLE IN BULGARIA. SABOTAGE AGAINST SHIPS CARRYING BAUXITE. 1 (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) BERLIN, March 6. The radio, quoting a report' from Belgrade, says the police at Split arrested five persons on a charge of sabotage against ships carrying bauxite. The announcer alleged that two of those arrested were connected with the British Consulate.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1941, Page 6
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