SAAR REGION

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 5

SAAR REGION

! GERMANY’S DESIRE HITLER AT DEMONSTRATION. (United Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) COLOGNE, August 27. Hitler and Papen flew from Tanneburg to attend the great demonstration by the Saar League at Ruedesheim. Speakings at the foot of the 1870 war monument, Hitler declared that “back to Germany” represented the only way for. a peopled Saar. Germany desired an understanding with France on all questions, but will never renounce the Saar, as the Saar would never abandon Germany. The Marxists who had betrayed Germany had been expelled. Hindenburg telegraphed asserting the inextinguishable connection of the German Saar district with Germany. Communists held counter-demon-strations at Saar, Bracken and Neun-k-irchen. PRESENTATION TO HINDENBURG. RECOGNITION OF SERVICES. BERLIN, August 27. ■Prussia Ims presented to President von Hindenburg the Langenau Estate and the Preuseen Forest, which formerly were owned by the Hindenburg family. They are adjoining to the President’s Neudeck estate. Captain Gowing, in making the presentation at the foot of the Tannenberg Memorial, at a ceremony marking the nineteenth anniversary of the Marshal’s Tannenberg victory, announced that these lands will be free from taxation so long as there is a male heir of the Hindenburg line left. 'Repling to greetings, President von Hindenburg, in a- broken voice, said: “I only did my dutv.”