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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1934.
THE BATTLE OF THE
SAAR BASIN
LEAGUE AUTHORITY OPENLY DEFIED
NAZI FERMENT IN BORDER STATE
(By George Slocombe.)
Saarbruck. Ithe phenomena of the campaign
Hitler has already won the battle which preceded and followed the
of Danzig. He is now preparing, Danzig elections and which have There they took an open boat overtly and secretly, by all the accompanied the Nazi campaign in and set sail for Denmark. After methods of propaganda and persun-Austria have been reproduced in nine hours they found themselves sion known to the Nazis. to win the the Saar.
battle of the Saar.
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German patrol some hours later.
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every speech.
show of spirit. It was that of Lieutenant Medii-eague of Nations, the Nazi fer- The League's government in the cott. By all accounts he was the ment is already active in the Saar. Saar rules by decree and only sub- League of mits its decisions to the local Landesrat, or elective assembly, for
champion escaper of the war,
He succeeded in getting out of 14 different campa and fortresses, by a combination of marvellous timing and iron nerve.
After his last recapture he was. murdered by his guards who were [taking him back to a fortress.
Your Daily Smile.
WHIMSY CORNER Baby mustn't touch dat. daddy's inkum-dinkum mandi
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GERROUCHER! ! !
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The authority of the Nations is openly defled.
A simple majority is sufficient to discussion. determine the formal return of the
It has complete to Germany. But control of the finance, police, judi- and undisputed Saar territory
before long
the plebiscite ia
ciary, social services and foreign actually beld the Berlin Govern relations of one of the richest little ment hopes that the
process of industrial territories In the world. assimilation will be completed.
In order to checkmate the Nazi There is no outward trace of the attempt to influence the course of Nazi conquest. To all casual ob- the plebiscite by the famillar pro- of assimilation the genial mnant of the Germany of Weimar despots of the Saar have just issued
servation the Szar is the last re-
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中央店
a series of ordinances which com- Dare with some of the Tsarist ukasca.
No uniforms, 310 paraded. no troops, only a thousand municipal police and as many gendarmes.
Only a few flags drooping from
They have replaced the fines the mastheads of buildings. or
which were the penalty for viola. hanging over shops in the streets of Lion A Tottenham woman told the Saarbruck, Saarlouis and Volk-
of previous ordinances by
every emblem is not predominant. In
and slower but may prove cheap-magistrates that her husband gave lingen, and among these the Nazi forbidden public officials
terms imprisonment. They have.
er both to the operating com- her a black eye regularly
to take panies and to the public whose Saturday. He must be careful not short, a peaceful and smiling ter- They have excluded German officials part in any political activities..
ritory, a Ruritanian border State.
from taking office in any Saar That, at least, is the impression trades union, chamber of commerce,
Hong Kong, Friday, January 19, 1984. freights will be sought, is natur- to get into a rut
al. The flight which has just ended is a step in the right direc tion, though the establishment of
Atlantic Air Routes,
much
IMPROVED VERSION
Things aro dullest just befarethat a casual observer would carry religious or charitable association.
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SHORT SHORT STORY Slate club secretary. Late club secretary.
"When a
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AGREED
man snores, buys a
|basin."
But beneath
away from this friendly little town. They have ordered such bodies to striving to maintain a picturesque never all connection with parent or neas of other centuries against the Saar. They have forbidden public.. encroaching industrialism of the affiliated organisations outside the smoking blast furnaces and sky-meatings, street collections, proces- obscuring coal pits of this rich sions, and the beflagging of build-
inga, without kovernment sanction. thisisuperficial
Futile Despotism They have appointed a commia- of government, if it has not yet aloner to scrutinise the activities, broken down, is seriously menaced.jaudit the accounts, and exercise In rivalry with the government arbitrary control over the Saar of the League a secret Nazi govern- Chamber of Commerce, an official ment attempts to exert its author-body with close political connections ity. It la headed by the Nazi lead-with Germany. They have sum er. Herr Spaniol, an unemployed |moned Herr Spaniol to discard his 29-year-old clerk who was formerly state appointment in Prussia. And in the service of a French manu- they have just suppressed, the chief facturer in the little Saar town of Nazi organ, the "Saarfront." for Bous and who now, in defiance of two months, for repeating an ac- of the latest decrees of the cusation that the government was Governing Commission, holds the listening-in to telephone conversa- office of Prussian State Councillor. tions.
a regular service by any route the yawn. Colonel Lindbergh is essential-may have to await a number of ly the practical airman and tech-other experiments. Previously, nical expert. He has no concern at the other end of the earth Mr. with the policy of the great C. T. Ulm, had shown that the American air transport company prospect of reaching Australia whose representative for the with British mails within the present he is. There was nothing week can be realized. He flew deliberately prophetic, therefore, the sort of aeroplane that might medico, "he is sleeping like a log." tranquillity stern and bitter pas in the statements he has made be used and, with his relief pilots, Yes-like a log some one is saw.sions are unloosed. The machinery
Ajing. on the subject of Atlantic air he flew it night and day. Hervices. He is evidently. likely similar accomplishment by Bri
"JEWELLER-MILLIONAIRE" to report of the Greenland air tish mail aeroplanes is
He climbed the ladder of success route that it can be flown in the nearer than the air service along summer and that it may be pos- the shorter but more difficult At-ring by ring. sible to dy it regularly in the lantic route. - winter. That is to say, that
The Japanese Budget. mails can be carried in three and a half days between Europe and the United States for half the Although the Japanese draft year and that in the other half Budget for 1834-35 shows a reduc- the service might be subject to tion of expenditure representing some delay or Interruption.(approximately £22;100,000 at par, Unless the time saved, in com-lt is still the second highest peace-
The League governors have also parison with marine transport time Budget in the history of were greater, any uncertainty as Japan. The Minister of Finance;
This youthful Nazi now makes warned both Judges and police that.. to schedules in winter would be has balanced his Budget at 2,017,-
the proud Ironmasters of the Saar they will be dismissed without ap- do what he wants. The officials of peal if they show political bias, and fatal, and the appropriate infer-000,000 yen (the equivalent at par Sound picture apparatus ence from Colonel Lindbergh'a of £201,700,000), but the deficit, home
the police, among them the highest, have threatened public officials with imprisonment if they betray evidence is that Pan-American though reduced by over £18,000,000 cabinet resembling & radio set has are secretly at his command. Airways will not attempt to from last year's total of nearly been invented, paper films illumine public services, the posts and official secrets,
The fundamental weakness of
The Power of the Press
"A baggy pair of trousers may lose a man a job," says a prominent employer.
"Colder in Ireland."
The Irish Freeze State.
Facts You Did Not Know.
for
use that Ja encased in a
•
has shown
one
Reign of Terror Exists
telegrapha, the tax collectors, the
municipal authorities, the burgo-this attempt at despotism is, how- masters, many bishops and high ever, that loyal and effective
operate the Greenland route 290,000,000, remains inordinately ated from the front being used without reasonable security on high. The demands of the Army instead of celluloid. the question of regularity. The and Navy are largely responsible. route is a tempting one because for this state of affairs. During Analysis of cosemeties found in ecclesiastics, and even the judges machinery is lacking for its execu it is the only one on which the the current financial year the cost the grave of a woman
and magistrates are largely sub- tion. The very officials who are alternative evils of small pay of the fighting services, which in-that the
than 2000 servient to this Nazi State within the objects of the ordinances are load or refuelling in mid-ocean cluded expenditure on the pacifica-jyears ago made face powder of the the State,
entrusted with the duty of enforc do not occur. The distance betion of Manchuria, amounted to same materiala and by the same
To put it bluntly, a reign of ing them. tween Newfoundland and Ireland (821,000,000 yon, after extensive cuts methods as are used to-day.
terror exists. Intimidation and I learn that when the League Is 1,800 miles; Between Bermuda had, been made in the estimates
espionage, secret denunciations, Council meets this intrinsic dis- and the Azores it is 2,000 miles, submitted by the Ministries con-
German ability of its commissioners in the An electric brake system that kidnappings across the
Greeks more
The longest stage on the Green-cerned. This year, though expen-operates from the regular ignition) border, removal to concentration Saar will be emphasised. It will be land route is only 660 miles. The alture on other objects has been re-system has been developed for a camps in Germany, threats of dis- argued that if the plebiscite, in difference in fuel in a four-duced, the military and naval esti-tomobiles and motor trucks, remov-missal and loss of pension to func- January, 1935, is to be conducted engined aeroplane for the long mates amount to £75,000,000, yen, inga avitch ping locking the tlonaries who disregard the orders in conditions of absolute freedom or the short stage would repre an amount which, was not exceeded brakes to prevent theft, sent a loss or gain in pay-load of even in. 1921, the year before the
not less than 7,000lb. On the Washington Conference, when the
of the unofficial Government, inter-and secrecy, foreign troops or police ception of letters and telegrams, must be drafted into the Sear, to listening-in to telephone conversa- give the governing commission the
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other hand the saving of time on Japanese Government was engaged competing countries, which have en-tions, polica leniency to Nasi offen- sanction of force. the direct route would represent upon a naval programme involving Abled Japan to increase her sales ders and severity to anti-Nazis—all a very valuable asset to the air the construction of sixteen capital and extend her markets during`s transport company which could ships. In 1921 the harvest of, war period of acute depression are ac- maintain a regular service, along prosperity had not been consumed. cidental; indeed, there are signa it. New York and London would A Treasury surplus remained, as that in some markets the tide of be only thirty hours apart and did a large specie reserve. But now Japanese Imports is already begin. the small freight which the fly- the Treasury is, a borrower; the níng to recede:: On the other hand ing-boat could carry might be specie reservs has vanished from the perceptible improvement in the able to demand very high fees, the nations!, accounts, and once relations between Japan and China The British view would certain- mors a heavy deficit must be cover- may eventually mealst the foland ly favour large pay-load and lowed by domestic borrowing. In Empire to regain some of the busl- rates. Ultimately plans for re-spite, therefore, of the marked re-ness lost through the Chinese boy- fuelling over the ocean may help, duction in the · defcit from last cott; it will almost certainly con- Alighting in mid-Atlantic in all year's figures, " 'a severe strain is tributs to the diminution of Japan- sorts of weather to take fuel still imposed upon the Japanese ess-military-expenditure in Man- from a mother ship is hardly to finances by expenditure uppa arma-churia. Above all the external be contemplated. It remains to ments, the legacy to a large extent credit of Japan siands very high. be seen whether or not such a of the Manchurian policy of the The attitude of her successive Gor- scheme can be worked by the Government. The large increase în ernments"? : towards her ("foreign Germans even in the Southern the volume of Ispanese export creditors has been frreproachable; | Atlantic. The difficulties, of air trade during the last two years hús, they haýe steadilyʻrealated' this operation between Europa and it is true, "produced-a favourable temptation to infiale the currency: |America are not to be under-es-trade balance, and unemployment and the best judges of Japanoso timated. They can only be over is not yet a seriona problem. But conditions belleva that the diatur- come at heavy cost, in capital ex- canses, chiefly connected with bence of the dianefal equilibrium penditure, and in operational, ex- inancial difficulties of other of the country de only femporary,
MUSSOLINIS WINTER SPORT: (Low in the London Fréning Blandard)
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