TROUBLE IN SAAR VALLEY
AGITATION IS SYSTEMATIC COMPLAINT OF COMMISSION REQUEST FOR MORE POLICE APPLICATION TO LEAGUE By Telegraph-Press Assn.—Copyright Geneva, Aug. 14. Mr. G. G. Knox, chairman of the Saar Governing Commission, has complained to the League of Nations of a systematic agitation against the Commission’s officials, who are unable to rely, on the present inadequate police force when dealing with Nazis. Mr. Knox requests the strengthening of the force by 2000 recruited from German-speaking members of the League. The Saar basin has a population of 700,000 and an area of 220 square miles. By the Treaty of Versailles France secured the output of the coal mines of the district as compensation for the destruction of her north-east coalfields during the war. The district is administered by a commission of five elected by the League of Nations. A plebiscite is to be taken after 15 years to determine its political status—whether it will become part of Germany again. The period ends next year, and the plebiscite will be taken on January 13.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1934, Page 5
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