IN THE SAAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 267, 10 November 1934, Page 9

IN THE SAAR.

GERMANY ACCUSED. League Commission Charges Interference. REPORT TO COUNCIL. (British Official Wireless..' (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, November 9. Mr. Anthony Eden will represent the British Government at the meeting of the disarmament bureau at Geneva on November 20, and at a special meeting of the League of Nations Assembly to consider the Gran Chaco question. He will also Attend the meeting of the Council of the League to be held on November 21 when the Saar question will be under consideration. It has not yet been decided whether Sir John Simon will visit Geneva for these meetings. The Council meeting will have before it a report published this evening at Geneva containing an analysis by the governing commission of the activities of the—Dentches front in the Saar. The report is a long one and offers evidence which it states sufficiently establishes the continued interference by tho German Government in the affairs of the Saar. The German Ambassador, ITorr von Hoesch, called at the Foreign Oilice and saw Sir John Simon. It is understood that questions connected with the holding of tho. Saar plebiscite on January 13 were discussed.

SAAR PERSECUTION. Definite Charges Against Germany. "WAIT TILL AFTER 1935!" (Received 1.30 p.m.) GENEVA, November 9. Mr. Geoffrey Knox, the Australian lawyer-diplomat who rules the Saar aa governing commissioner on behalf of the League of Nations, has sent a letter to the League, in which he says: — "I want to draw the Council's serious attention to the fust information obtained from a partial scrutiny of documents seized during a recent search of the voluntary labour service under the Deutsche front."

The League publishes the Saar Commission's report of the front's activities, and declares that the seized documents show that the front, which is identical with the Nazi party in Germany, subjected residents to threats, the commonest of which is, "Wait until after 1935!" The front is divided into such small cells that it is impossible to miss any house or person. German wireless and newspapers are used for the purpose of persecuting residents, while a boycott of denunciation of the German authorities is among other means of pressure. The report charges that a subsidiary body which has allegedly been created to hold the wilder spirits in check, is really a super-spy organisation of 10,000 strong, ready to take street action at any moment. The seized documents included a report by Mr. Knox's ex-butler, giving alleged conversations at the dinner-table. The German Government is definitely charged with supporting the front's persecution activities.

HITLER CHARITY. Relatives of Victims in 1923 Abortive Revolt. £25,000 TO BE SPENT. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, November" 9. The "Daily Mail" Berlin correspondent says that Herr Hitler has ordered the Nazi party Treasury to distribute £25,000 in the year from November 11 to the parents and the nearest relatives of those who fell in the Nazi abortive revolution of November 11, 1023. The distribution will be made in accordance with the necessities of the various families.