SAAR PLEBISCITE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 280, 10 November 1934, Page 5

SAAR PLEBISCITE

GERMAN INTERFERENCE Report To League Council COMMISSION’S ANALYSIS (British Official Wireless.) (Received 10, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 9. The Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden will represent the British Government at a meeting of the Disarmament Bureau at Geneva on November, and at a special meeting of the Assembly to consider the Chaco question. He will also attend a 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 of the Council. The meeting will have before It a report published this evening at Geneva containing an analysis by the Governing Commission of activities on the Deutsche Front, iu the Saar. The report, a long one, offers evidence which it states sufficiently establishes tho continued interference of the German Government in the affairs of the Saar.

The German Ambassador called at the Foreign Office and saw Sir John Simon. It is understood that questions connected with the holding of the Saar Plebiscite on January 13 were discussed. DEUTSCHE FRONT Persecution Activities (Received 10, 1.30 p.m.) GENEVA, Nov. 9. The Saar Commissioner, in a letter to the League, said: “I want to draw the Council’s serious attention to the first 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, which declares that it seized documents which show that the Front is identical with the Nazi Party and subjected residents to threats, the most common of which is: “Wait until after 1935.” Tho 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 boycott and denunciation to the German authorities are among other means of pressure. The report charges a subsidiary body, which allegedly was created to hold wilder spirits in check, with being really a super-spy organisation 10,000 strong ready to take street action at any moment. Tho seized documents included a report oy the Commissioner’s ex-butler, giving alleged conversations at a dinner table. The German Government definitely is charged with supporting the Front’s persecution activities.