TERROR IN SAAR

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 9

TERROR IN SAAR

Intimidation By Nazis Reported WHAT JOURNALIST SAW “Idle to Think Guarantees Will Be Observed” LEAGUE MOVE SUGGESTED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 22, 11.50 p.m.) London, January 22. The “Manchester Guardian’s” special Saarbrucken correspondent, describing the exodus of men, women and children from the Njizi terror, says that thousands are facing a terrible nightmare. He visited nearly 20 Saar towns and villages where an organised nightmare, skilfully thought out, is applied with all the uncanny psychological insight of which Nazis are capable. The torments inflicted by the Nazis in Germany are literally dangled before the eyes of separatists as status quo supporters are called, always with the intimation that they will be inflicted after March 1. Straw dolls suspended from a kind of gallows are nightly paraded before windows, and houses are kept underconstant observation. Whenever the occupants emerge they are spat upon and their children bullied and mocked. A GO-year-old woman was seized and her head pushed into a muck heap. Police do not interfere, and even cooperate with the Nazis in making “political arrests,” searching and often damaging houses. The international force is too few and scattered. “It is idle to suppose that the guarantees given by Germany will be observed when already they are being circumvented. A special league commissioner ought to be sent to the Saar immediately to help relieve the panic and suffering. The League ought also To make representations to Berlin, restrain German wireless stations, also (to co-operate hi maintaining the governing commission’s authority, which has virtually ceased.”