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“ABSENTEE” VOTES. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 23. “The Times’s” Berlin correspondent says that 4,800 Germans who were Saarlanders when the Versailles Treaty was signed, are travelling to the Saar from throughout Germany, in fifty-seven special trains. Thus nearly a, tenth of the 540,000 voters will be outsiders. BRITISH MESSAGE. RUGBY, 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 at Saarbrucken on Saturday, when the First East Lancashire Regiment paraded through the town. Thye marched at ease with rifles inconspicuously slung and bayonets sheathed. Their two bands played homely airs, and the troops whistled gaily. “The Times’s” correspondent 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.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 December 1934, Page 5
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