SAAR TERRORISM

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1935, Page 5

SAAR TERRORISM

GENERAL EXODUS

i AN ORGANISED NIGHTMARE.

(United Press Association —By Electrio Teiej^taph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 22. The “Manchester Guardian’s’’ special fcfaarbrucken correspondent, describing what lie terms an exodu s of men, women and children from the Nazi terror, says that thousands are facing a terribie nightmare. He has visited nearly twenty Saar towns .and viiiages, and. says: An ‘organised .nightmare liras skilfully been thought out, and applied with ail the' uncanny psychological insight ( of which the Nazis are capable. The torments inflicted by the Nazis in Germany are literally being dangled before .the eyes of the separatists, as the status quo-ists are called, always with the intimation that they will be inflicted after March 1.

Straw dolls, suspended from a kind of gallows, are nightly being paraded "before the windows of the separatists, and their houses are kept under constant observation. Whenever the occupants emerge, they are spat upon, and their children•-are bullied and mocked..

A sixty-year-old woman was seized and her head pushed into a muck heap. The police do not interfere, but even co-operate with the Nazis in making “political arrests.” and in 'searching and often in damaging

houses. The International Force is too few and scattered to stop it, . ;It is idle to suppose that the, guarantees given by Germany will be, observed when they already are being circumvented. A special League of Nations Commissioner ought to be sent to ‘the Saar immediately to help to relieve the panic and suffering. ; The League of Nations ought ‘also to make representations to Berlin - to restrain the German wireless stations, and to have all co-operate in .maintaining the Saar Governing Commission’s authority,, which has virtually ceased.