NAZISM IN SAAR

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 5

NAZISM IN SAAR

GRAVE ALLEGATIONS PRESENTATION TO LEAGUE THREATS TO RESIDENTS INTERFERENCE ALLEGED “WAIT TILL AFTER 1935” British Wireless. Rugby, Nov. 9. The Council of the League of Nations will on November 21 have before it a report published this evening at Geneva containing an analysis by the Governing Commission of the activities of the German Front, which is a Nazi organisation, in the Saar. The report is long and offers evidence which, it states, sufficiently establishes the continued interference of the German Government in the affairs of the Saar. The renort will be discussed by the Council. The German Ambassador, Herr von Hoesch, called at the Foreign Office where he saw Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary. It is understood that questions connected with the holding of the Saar plebiscite on January 13 were discussed. „ , ... Mr. R. A. Eden, Lord Privy Seal, will attend the meeting of the Council of the League on November 21. It has not yet been decided whether Sir John Simon will visit Geneva for this meeting. According to a Geneva cable Mr. George G. Knox, the British chief of the Saar Governing Commission,, in a letter to the League of Nations, said: “I want to draw the council's serious attention to first information obtained from the partial scrutiny of documents seized during the recent search of the Voluntary Labour Service under the German Front. The League publishes the Saar Commission’s report of the German Fronts activities and declares that the seized documents show that it is identical with the Nazi party. It subjected residents to threats, the most common of which is “Wait until after 1935.” The German Front is divided into such small cells that it is impossible to miss any house or person. German wireless and newspapers are used for the purpose of persecuting residents, while boycott and denunciation to the German authorities are among other means of pressure. The report charges a subsidiary body, which allegedly was created to hold the wilder spirits in check, as being really a super-spy organisation 10,000 strong, ready to take street action at any moment. . The seized documents included a report by Mr. Knox’s former butler, giving alleged conversations at the dinner table. The German Government is definitely charged with supporting the German Front’s persecution activities.