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TRANSFER OF SAAR

League Consideration This Week GERMANY’S DEMAND Committee Agrees Upon Details ACCEPTANCE FROM BERLIN AWAITED (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 17, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, January 16. Important details in connection witli the question of the transfer of the Saar following the result of Sunday’s plebiscite are engaging expert attention at Geneva. The question was not before the League Council to-day and is not mentioned in the agenda for to-mor-row’s meeting. Geneva reports, however, state that at the latest it will be before the Council on Friday and that the Council’s session will conclude on Saturday as arranged. t The postponement of the decision regarding tlie Saar, a Geneva cable states, is due partly to Germany’s demand that the announcement of the date of the reunion with Germany should be made simultaneously with the proclamation of the transfer decision and partly by France’s raising the question of demilitarisation. The Treaty of Versailles provides that no troops must be stationed in German territory on the left bank of the Rhine. France further claims that strategic railways and facilities for dispatching troop trains cannot be allowed. The “Daily Mail” says that Signor Aloisi’s committee has agreed upon all details and only final acceptance from Berlin is needed. This is believed to be forthcoming as the whole solution was worked out on lines providedby German experts. There is no difference of opinion between France and Germany on demilitarisation. A Paris message states that a customs frontier has been erected between France and the Saar as from to-day. FORGERY Germans and Voting Papers HERR BRAUN’S STATEMENT (Received January 18, 12.10 a.m.) Sarrbrucken, January 17. Herr Braun, in a talk to Press representatives before his departure for Geneva, alleged, that many of the Saar voting papers were forgeries. He declared that the German Front had imitations printed, then pencilled a cross in favour of return to Germany. These were given to waverers, who were ordered to bring back a gemline paper as proof that they had deposited the other. EXODUS COMMENCES Refugees Move Into France NO MOLESTATION IN SAAR (Received January 17, 7.40 p.m.) Saarbruckeu, January 16. The chairman of the Saar Commission, Mr. G. G. Knox, is snowed under with appeals for protection from members of the defeated parties. Sixteen Communists have been arrested and their houses searched. A steady movement of refugees across the French frontier.has begun." A hundred refugees have arrived at Sarreguemines, France. They were .examined by military doctors and taken to a receiving centre. Two thousand are expected to-morrow. Herr Braun, the Socialist leader, is going to Geneva, despairing of his effort to persuade the League that the plebiscite was unfair owing to Deutsch Front terrorism. Then he returns to Saarbrucken to' continue opposing Hitlerism, despite the personal risk involved. The French Consulate is busy providing passports for Jews and others, but there is no molestation, SENSE OF RELIEF Absence of Disturbances BRITISH PRESS COMMENT (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, January 16. The general sense of relief that the Saar voting passed off without serious disturbance and was of such a decisive nature as to simplify the task of the League Council is reflected in all British newspaper comments this morning. Hope is expressed that the Saarlanders will continue to display discipline and calm during the period of waiting which is inevitable in order to permit the technical tasks of transfer to be completed in good order and that the League Council will curtail that period to the shortest time practicable. As to wider considerations the view is expressed that the clear-cut decision removes a thorn which might have inflamed all Europe. Herr Hitler’s statement. that a decisive step had been taken toward a gradual reconciliation and that the Germans would not withhold themselves from the tasks necessary for the “genuine solidarity of nations” is coupled with that of the French Premier, M. Flandin,, that Franco-German relations would “progressively improve with collaboration in European peace as their goal,” and the hope is expressed that further progress toward European pacification will be possible in the spirit of these words. English newspapers naturally also give prominence to the appreciative remarks made by both French and/ German newspapers on the tact and good temper shown by the international Force in thg Saar.

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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 9

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TRANSFER OF SAAR Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 9

TRANSFER OF SAAR Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 9

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