34 BOMBERS, 77 FIGHTERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 158, 22 September 1941, Page 6

34 BOMBERS, 77 FIGHTERS

TO HELP FREE HOLLAND

BOUGHT BY DUTCH COLONISTS

Thirty-four bombers, all Dutch manned, and 77 fighters are the result to date of the aircraft drive in Netherlands colonies to help Britain's war effort. Of the total rcceivcd from the 1 drive, £1,200,000, or more than 10 per cent has come from Queen Wilhe.lmina's subjects overseas.

Netherlands East Indies sent SLOW), 000 of it, nearly all -in dollar exchange. I'n Batavia, on the anniversary of tbe invasion of Holland by the Nazis, the people gave onethird of their wages. A bootblacK there, Kistoko by name, allotted a daily contribution from his earnings Even the prisoners gave up tlieii pocket money.

The native people of Palembangschc Bovenlanden (South Sumatra) gathered 41,000 ilorins. In 5 months these people sent three Spitfires into battle and gave 15,000 ilorins towards a bomber.

In U.S.A. a show of 11 paintings bj' Van Gogh netted 18,000 dollars.

Suriname (Dutch Guinea) sent £5000. In Curacao off the Mosquito Coast, the Ladies' Spitfire Committee collected 40,000 florins: the whole colony 400,000. Aruba native folk put 6000 florins together.

All of them have given freely of their money, asking one thing only, that these avengers of the rape of Holland shall bear names like The Flying Dutchman, Middelburg I and 11, Tapanoeli and—Rotterdam. .