GERMANY TAKES OVER

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 2 March 1935, Page 5

GERMANY TAKES OVER

Hitler’s Triumphant Reception on Arrival at Saarbrucken ABSENT FROM CEREMONY DEPUTY’S RADIO SPEECH

(United association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright!. BERLIN, March 1. Received 11 a.m. to-day.

The handing over of the Saar was carried out" in accordance with the programme. Baron Aloisi briefly addressed Herr Frick in French, and after a translation Herr Frick walked to a microphone and gave a curt order to hoist the flags. He then broadcast a speech, in which he said that what the Saar had yearned for 15 years ha'd become a reality. The Saar had been German for more than IOdO years, and to-day returned to the Fatherland. “Never again shall we tolerate German land being torn from us by force,” he added. President Hitler’s absence from the ceremony occasioned surprise, b.ut it was learnt he was flying from Berlin to make a trimphant entry into Saarbrucken. The aerodrome there was waterlogged, so Herr Hitler left the plane at Mannheim, v A Saarbrucken message says that no triumphant Caesar received a reception such as that accorded Herr ‘Hitler when he stepped out of a car on his arrival. Storm troopers lined the streets, and Herr Hitler, with his arm continuously raised in salute, was obviously moved as Saarlanders streamed from beer houses and cheered, “heiled” and saluted. “In the name of the League of Nations, and in my capacity as president of the Committee of Three, which regulated all questions connected with the Saar, I have the honour to complete the actual transfer of the Saar territory to the Reich,” said Baron Aloisi.” “This closes a page in history, and with it disappears an element of unrest in the relations among the peoples. I express a wish that the solution of this ,problem reached after long and difficult negotiations carried on in a spirit of loyalty and mutual understanding, may prove a good omen for the quiet and peace of Europe.” / Sir Geoffrey Knox, the Saar Commissioner, had handed over to the Committee of Three yesterday, after which he left the Saar, where he had fulfilled for three years an extremely difficult task. <

British newspapers to-day pay tributes to the tact and courage which he displayed, despite unfortunate campaigns of vilification to which he was at times subjected.