THE SAAR REGION

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 189, 11 August 1920, Page 5

THE SAAR REGION

ACTS OF SABOTAGE

OfcESUKr OF GERMAN PROPAGANDA.

[.Press Association.] (Renter's Telegrams.) A strike amonu the public service 'employees un the Saar district, accompanied by .acts lof . sabotage, resulted in a state of siege being <Ae.clared at Saarbruck. It appears <that the German Government had a hand in .the movejnent. Documents found m -posses•rion of an .ex-member rof the llei.cnistac .(OlimMtt) showed that the Government allotted :five million marks for Pan-German propaganda m the iSaar district, comprising ■military and ajoltticdl' espionage, with .the object, «>f preventing the Taeague of batons tfrom administering the Saar region iin accordance with the Treaty of VerHSitillfiS. . ■ , An -inquiry has -opened. into the <of "Qlimert antt <others.