DEATH SENTENCE
ON FIVE DUTCH CITIZENS.
FOR HELPING BRITISH AIRMEN
TO ESCAPE
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, August 18.
A Berlin message says General Christiansen announced that a courtmartial had passed sentence of death on five Dutch citizens for aiding six members of the crew of a British bomber to escape. The bomber was forced down in. Holland on August 8 and the airmen, captured on the same day. were found wearing civilian clothes and carrying money and food.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 6
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84DEATH SENTENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 6
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