REPORT TO LEAGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 226, 24 September 1934, Page 7

REPORT TO LEAGUE.

Nazi Terrorism Rife in the Saar. ELECTION TROUBLE BREWING. (Recelvcd"l2 noon.) SAARBRUCKEN, September 23. A world committee headed by Lord Marlcy, tlie English peer who recently headed an unofficial world commission of inquiry into the question of Manchuria, has reported upon its investigations into Nazi terrorism in the Saar to the League of Nations. The report states that the Nazis arc practising terrorism and violence on a large scale and bringing open or secret pressure to bear against their opponents in the forthcoming plebiscite election to dccido whether the Saar will belong to France or Germany. The conviction exists that the plebiscite will be neither secret nor free. It is also widely urged that iii the event of the vote being for a status quo, a second plebiscite should be held on the question of modifying the present Constitution. TOLL OF TYPHOON. 1608 Reported Dead in Japan's Disaster. LOSSES ON LAND AND SEAi TOKYO, September 23. Incomplete reports as to the casualties caused by the typhoon in Japan have reached the Home Ministry. According to these tho deaths totalled 1608, and thoso injured 5207, while 500 are missing. These figures apply only to the losses on land. It is impossible even to guess at the loss of life at sea. Oflicial returns show that 5104 small craft, most of them fishing boats, were wrecked 6r arc missing. It is revealed that the velocity of the wind at Osaka was from 65 to 70 metres per second, compared with the world's record of 54 metres. At the summit of Mount Fujiyama it is estimated to have reached a velocity of 100 metres per second. Although other catastrophes have claimed more lives, none except the great Tokyo earthquake of 1023 have wrought such havoc to national economy. The disaster is also a setback to the Army's ambitious munitions programme, as scores of factories which were turning out weapons and ammunition were destroyed or damaged. FOUR FLYERS DEAD. Crash of Youth of New Zealand 'Plane. REFUELLING MACHINE. LONDON, September 23. On returning from Portsmouth after refuelling Sir Alan Cobham's aeroplane, another 'plane, the Youth of New Zealand, piloted by C. H. Bembridge (a former member of the Royal Air Force, who was attached to Sir Alan's circus), accompanied by three mechanics, crashed in flames in Buckinghamshire. The four occupants were burned to death.

The Youth of New Zealand's wreckago was scattered over several acres and her engines were found 100 yards apart. Formerly the machine was an Imperial Airways liner. The cause of the crash is not known.