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GENEVA, March 12. The controversy regarding the Saar has resulted in a unanimous compromise by which a new force controlled by a governing commissioner and restricted to a maximum of eight hundred men will primarily be a police force, but only emplovable in grave circumstances. Dr Stresemann wanted. tlie force to be international in character, and delivered an impassioned speech, whereupon M. Briand expressed the opinion that he was using a club to slay a mouse. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in a mediatory speech, pointed out that Dr Stresemann had gained nearly everything he demanded. Unanimity was reached when the Council agreed that the present French troops must be evacuated within three months. The Council resolved that children speaking only Polisli would not be admissable to German schools.