News has reached here of the death in Makasser, Dutch East Indies, of Engineer F. C. van Lier, Mayor of that city.
Engineer van Lier, who was the only Jew filling a mayoralty in the Dutch East Indies, was 54 years old and a member of an old Amsterdam family. Before leaving Holland in 1915 to take up Government service in the Dutch East Indies he played a prominent part in Jewish and general public life in Holland. He had held a position of Inspector of Mines and had been entrusted with important work by the Dutch Government.
In Jewish communal life, the deceased, during his stay in the Dutch East Indies, took the initiative in organizing the Jews of Java and neighboring Dutch settlements. It was through his efforts that the Dutch East Indies Society for Jewish Interests became an important and effective institution in the Far East.
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