SAAR INCIDENT
DEATH OF SEPARATIST LEADER. POLICE COMMISSIONER LIBERATED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright). (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Soarbrucken, Jan. 25. Police Commissioner Tilk has been liberated. , , , A message from Saarbrucken on January 22 read; The police attempted to arrest Paul Meyer, an ex-prefect of the Rhineland, on an old German warrant, charging him with embezzlement. Meyer was shot dead when he resisted.- The ant.’-Nazi Press suggests terrorism, alleging German revenge against Mever, who was the leader of the Separatists. Police Commissioner Tilk, who allegedly fired the shot, was subsequently arrested on a supreme plebiscite court warrant on a charge of murder.
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Southland Times, Issue 22492, 29 January 1935, Page 5
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100SAAR INCIDENT Southland Times, Issue 22492, 29 January 1935, Page 5
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