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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1927, Page 4

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| SAAR VALLEY. RUGBY. March 24. Regarding the agreement reached by the Council of the League of Nations respecting an international railway police force for the. Saar, Sir Austen Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons that the report of the Saar Governing Commission recommended that there should lie placed at its disposal a railway commission and railway defence force of POO men for the exclusive purpose of safeguarding transit and transport through the Saar territory, and that in case of necessity it should be ab’i’e to call in two battalions of French troops from outside the territory.. The League Council adopted on -March 12th a resolution that the organisation proposed by the Governing Commission should be put into effect within a maximum delay period of three months, and therefore troops stationed in the territory of the Saar would be withdrawn within that period. The railway defence force could only take action affecting the population under exceptional’ circumstances. The strength of 800 men indicated for this force represented " the maximum. Should the Governing Commission think the reduction of this number possible it was entitled to take the necessary measures to that effect without being obliged previously to refer the matter to the Council. [ A GENEROUS GIFT. RUGBY. March 24. Prince Arthur of Connaught announced at Middlesex Hospital to-day that an anonymous person had given J 2180.000 to the hospital, towards providing a complete hostel and trainingschool for nurses.

'J THE LAUGHING SUICIDES. BERLIN. Jan. 17. I Three young girls, Dora Weber her sister Charlotte, with their great friend. Frieda Schoeffow. left the office of a pieture postcard firm in Chariotten berg after work was over on Wednesday evening. As they went one of them turned and said to their colleagues. “Good-bye we are going out to die together!” She laughed gaily and everybody else laughed at what appeared to be silly jest. Yesterday morning the three girls did not cnine to the office, and their colleagues began to wonder whether the remark about them was. after all. in jest. CHEERFUL WORKERS. The parents reported that the three had not been home since Wednesday, and there was a gloom in the office, for Dora. Charlotte, and Frieda were such willing workers and cheerful company that everybody loved them. Yesterday afternoon throe little handbags., three hats, and three pairs of stockings were found on the shore of Mueddelsoe. a lake at the outskirts of Berlin, and late at night tire body of Dora, who was the eldest of the three girls and 21, was found in the water s>oo yards from the plnco where the

bags, bats and stockings had been ieft. Her parents had already received a letter from Charlotte, who was If), in which she said she had decided to iajee her life, and Frieda, who was 17. had sent a similar letter to her parents. Dora did not write, and neither parents nor friends appear to have a clue to the three young creatures’ reasons for making away with themselves. ENGAGED TO is widows. BERLIN. Feb. 5 Eighteen widows assembled in h Berlin court this morning to denounce Robert Loteisen, formerly cook in a Hamburg-Amerika liner, who had promised to marry the lot. When he was off duty Robert used to promenade the deck of the liner, and ns he was tall, good-looking, and elegantly dressed, he mnnaged to scrape acquaintance with a 'number of passim- j gers who gave him introductions to I relatives in Berlin. It was introductions to widows with money that he valued most. Thanks to the imprudence of the travellers and his own powers of fascination he became engaged to widows all over Berlin and the surrounding districts. He managed oil various pretexts to gef money from most of them. /file widows sat in court and glared at him this morning, and a happy lock of r£ ven 8 e came into their eyes' when they the judge sentence him to !v yea 1, hnd a half’s imprisonment.