Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-08-15 | Page 2 | Holland Nazis Kill Hostages

HOLLAND NAZIS NAilS KILL HOSTAGES LONDON Aug 15 UP The UP-The The Dutch government announced that Germans had begun reprisal slayings slayings slay- slay i ings of ot hostages with five executions executions t ions carried out Saturday The Dutch hostages known to have been executed already include prominent intellectual and social l leaders one of ot them the head bead of the Dutch Olympic Games commit commit- tee The Netherlands news agency gave the names of the victims as Willem general director-general of Rotterdam the Count of Limburg- Limburg atrium of ot Arnheim a Mr of ot Rotterdam Christopher Beene- Beene I kers former police inspector of Rotterdam and Alexander Baron Schimmel Van Der Del Roye former president of ot the Netherlands Netherlands Nether Nether- Netherlands lands Olympic committee The spokesman said information indicated that the Germans had thus far refrained from shooting more than five of ot the 1600 hostages hostages hostages hos hos- they hold bold only because they believed that the Dutch patriots who wrecked a German troop train near Rotterdam August 7 might be apprehended within the next 48 hours