PARADE THROUGH SAARBRUCKEN

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21356, 26 December 1934, Page 9

PARADE THROUGH SAARBRUCKEN

A PEACEFUL PROGRESS CITIZENS WATCH BRITISH TROOPS (BKITED PRSSS ASSOCIATION —BY BLICTBIO TELSG*APH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 25, 10.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 24. The international force in the Saar is now complete except for the British armoured cars, which are due to arrive after Christmas. There were large crowds in the streets of Saarbrucken on Saturday, when the First East Lancashire Regiment paraded through the town. They marched at ease with rifles inconspicuously slung and bayonets sheathed. Their two bands played homely airs and the troops whistled gaily. The correspondent of '"The Times" says: '"The waiting people who had turned out in real force this time could not but feel that a message of peace and goodwill, as well as an assurance of security, had come from Britain."

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVES NAZIS FROM AMERICA WELCOMED SAARBRUCKEN, December 23. In striking contrast with the silent reception given to foreign troops, an uproarious welcome was accorded to 300 Saarlanders, from North and South America, who arrived in garlanded trains. Their fares and expenses were paid in return for a promise that they would vote for the return of the Saar to Germany in the plebiscite. Though the flying of flags is forbidden, the visitors were greeted with cheers and patriotic songs. The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" says 48,500 Germans who were Saarlanders when the Versailles Treaty was signed are travelling to the Saar from throughout Germany in 57 special trains. Thus nearly a tenth of the 545,000 voters will be outsiders.