UNREST IN THE SAAR

Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1934, Page 2

UNREST IN THE SAAR

SAFETY of the commissioner.

FRIENDS ADVISE A HOLIDAY.

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.

London, Nov. 25.

The Daily Express’ Saarbrucken correspondent says that friends of Mr. G. G. Knox, the Australian-born president of the Saar Governing Commission, are trying to persuade him to take a holiday before the plebiscite on January 13. Mr. Knox has completed a busy weekend and is driving his own car to Geneva over mountainous roads. The journey is expected to take six hours, which is three hours faster than the train. Mr. Knox makes no secret of his distaste for the measures taken fOr his personal safety. Nevertheless he has done everything to make the two Scotland Yard detectives sent to guard him feel at home. He supplies tea, bacon and haddock, brought from England, to enable them to take a British breakfast at the Presidency.

Mr. Knox’s mode of life tends to render him secure from attack. He never visits a place of public entertainment and rarely leaves the Presidency, where he has been known to remain for two months in an unbroken spell. Mr. Knox is a bachelor and has remained aloof from society since German hosts greeted him at a dinner party with cries of “Heil Hitler!”