SCENES IN THE SAAR

Evening Post, Issue 52, 2 March 1935, Page 10

SCENES IN THE SAAR

RESTORED TO GERMANY

LEADER ADDRESSES CROWD

HAPPY DAY FOR EUROPE

United Press Association—By Electric Tele-

graph—Copyright. (Received March 2, 2 p.m.)

SAARBRUCKEN, March 1

"Hitler is here," was the news which electrified the city, transformed overnight into a mighty stage, ringing with music and bedecked with banners and garlands, under which thousands of Black Guards and Storm Troops and police marched and counter-marched like supers in a vast play. The enactment of today's historic drama was prolonged far into the night with ceremonies and demonstrations and loudspeakers, martial music, and the tramp of troops defied sleep as the incoming thousands from Germany strode triumphantly to their quarters unmindful of the bitter, cold drizzle. Amid delirious enthusiasm, in which twenty thousand participated, Herr Hitler took the salute at an impressive march-past. From the steps of the illuminated Town Hall he spoke to a cheering concourse. He recalled addressing the Saarlanders in 1933, and declared that Germany had kept her promise, then broadcast, to stand by them. "I am happy to be with you in your first hours of liberty," said the leader. "It is a day of happiness for all Gerr many, even for Europe, because it has removed a crisis under which two great nations have suffered. Let us hope that France is as ready as we are to seek peace. It must be possible to grasp hands and, remove all obstacles to peace." Hitler continued: "Today should be a lesson to those who believe that a nation can be robbed of its character by force or that its soul can be stolen. This cannot be done. Blood is stronger than documents. Today is only the beginning of the work for the great Reich. I implore you who have been faithful for fifteen years to have faith in the new Germany whose millions are. now marching in step." The cheers having subsided Herr -Buerckel shouted: "Germany is Adolf Hitler. Hitler is our- Germany." Hitler, standing erect and bareheaded in his car, doffed his overcoat on his arrival at the Town Hall, despite the downpour. In order to demonstrate that he scorned protection he did not possess a Nazi bodyguard.