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THE Saar has voted against
THE
Independence and "Euro- pennisation" und has chosen instend to be tied to Ger-
This iu the
con- many. clusion to be drawn from the weekend vote. It w tempting to describe the result as "surprising" or "a shock." In fact it is neither, though it is regrettable in the extreme.
Last January M. Mendes-,
France, then
Premier
France, und Dr Konrad Adenauer agreed to "share" the Suar by offering the territory an independent European status.
It
Wid
hoped that this Bolution
Established 1845
'THE WEATHER: '/Moderate flac.
or fresh E.S.E. winds. Fair
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1956.
SAAR STATUTE
Voters' Decisive To European
"No" CYPRUS OUTRAGES Status Curfew At
Limassol Restored
A TWO TO ONE MAJORITY
Saarbruecken, Oct. 23.
Six hundred thousand German-speaking Saarlanders today decisively rejected a plan to "Europeaniso" their rich coal and steel territory under an independent commissioner.
Nicosia, Oct. 23. A bomb exploded in
Limassol, second largest town in Cyprus, tonight thorities reinforced a dusk
In a referendum they threw out the European Statute would end once and for all drawn up a year ago by France and Germany in a bid to settle one hour after British au
Franco German their long standing quarrel over who should rule the tiny 967.
problem which hnd bedevilled
relations for over 300 years, ||
M. Mendes-France went so far square mile valley.
as to make the Saar statute the main condition for French agreement to West: German rearmament, Ob-1 servers point out that as a result of the weekend vote this agreement
has been undermined and that new friction is likely to arise between the two dountries.
IN the past the Germans
Final figures (provisional) in the plebiscite were:
Yes:
No:
212,973 423,434
Not valid: 15,726
The rejection by an almost exact 2-1 vote is a great victory for Dr Schneider, 48-year-old former Nazi storm trooper who led the anti-Statute forces and a rebuff for 64-year-old Saar Premier, Herr Johannes Hoffman, who had urged adoption of the Statute.
member of
Dr Schnelder. it have always maintained] Nezl Party and Saar expert that failing the establish in the Prussian Interior Ministry ment of A European com-untit the Nazin expelled him in munity, they would never 1937, led the pro-German partion accept as permanent a Holu-opposition to the Statute on the grunds it would make separa- tion which left 960,000
on from Germany permanent. Saarlanders who are ta- Rallied by Dr Schnelder, doubtedly German) outside
Chairman of the Democratic the Fatherland. The French Party of the
Saat, the Saar- for their part could never landers tumed out
thelr accept any development that thousands today and it was threatened to break up the estimated that about 96 per cent marriage between Saar coal ad those eligible voted.
Under the Statute the Saar, and Lorraine iron and steel which buttresses the French at present economically linked
against economy
superior with Fence which controls de- German economic resources, fence and foreign affairs, would
This is the crux of the Saar
problem. Earlier
year
the French
under
in
have gained local autonomy the Independent com-
pending
this missioner atated treaty emphatically that the Saar which resources should
D
with Germany
peace from the Soor was separated
never be in 1945.
1945 VOTE
allowed to pass under the
control of a rearmed Ger-
many.
Now Germany
rearming and the only With the rejection the possible conclusion to be status quo is expected to return parties may
drawn from the weekend re- and pro-German ferendum is that the Saar be banned, as they were until ultimately will gravitate July this year when they were back to Germany. To this allowed extent it is a rebuff to open French aspirations.
IT is of prime importance
prign.
sony,
to come
out into the for the referendum com-
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In a plebiscite in 1945, when Saarlanders had choice of therefore that
new union a
Germany. with
union meeting between M. Faure with France or remaining Nations, and Dr Adenauer be held under the League of as soon as possible. If the there was a 90.30 per cent voté outcome is nothing more in favour of union with Ger- The vole was for Ger- than дл exchange of as-
for the League surances that no impetuous many 477.119. action will be taken by either 30,513, for France 2,135, invalid
2,249. side, there is some hope that
Can reigned in the streets this question can be settled inte tonight in spite of forecasts
by the Sanr police under a now agreement.
chief that With general elections pend-there would be demonstrations Ing in France, an attempt cainst Premier Johannes Hoff- should be made to hammer man in the event of rejection.
out a mutually agreeable ALL PEACEFUL
solution before the end of
The
Saar Government
Premier Resigns
Baarbrucken. Oct. 24. government - controlled Saar radio announced to- day that the Premier of the Saar government, Johannes Hoffman, had re- signed.
The announcement followed emergency
raidnight
Banr
session of the Cabinet, Informed sources said it dis
cussed whether Herr Hoff- man should resign as 'á re- sult of the smashing defent in Sunday's referendum, The Heimatband urged in A tonight Issued statement the dissolution of the pro- sent Saur Diet, resignation
the
of
Government
of
Premier
to dawn curfew.
More than 40,000 people, including about 200 British families, were sent behind the closed doors of their homes at sunset today as a dusk to dawn curfew was
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SYRIA RUSHES TROOPS
TO ISRAELI
BORDER Tension Grows In Middle East
London, Oct. 23. Syria rushed reinforcements to her heavily fortified 50- mile border with Israel today after a violent clash last night deepened the already growing tension between Israel and her Arab neighbours.
The Syrians said an Israeli unit penetrated half a mile into Syria,
officer and two soldiers before being driven off.
five yaian patrol cara, took five men prisoners, and then killed a Israel said the Syrians had been holding four Israelis for months and had kidnapped another in a series of recent raids. The raid was held to be a "retaliatory" attack.
Syrian
re-imposed on the island's RED two major towns, Limassol and Famagusta.
The curfews were imposed as
a measure of mass punishment- following incidents in the two towns in the past three days,
ARMS
UNLOADING
AT ALEXANDRIA
Cairo, Oct. 23.
Six Communist vessels are unloading Czech arms
in which eight people, including at Alexandria, it was reported tonight by authorita-
four Britons, were injured,
three of them seriously, British tive sources.
etizens
living curfewed town
Service families.
Johannes Flog. Diet clex-
1t
man, and new stotis.
The statement said the re-
"European Jection of a status" for the Baar "Is not
within
Dre
the
Among the cargo are huge crates, probably contain- mainly ing tanks and armoured vehicles for the Egyptian Army,
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The United Nations Palestine delegation condemned Iaraol for the attack.
The chief truce supervisor flew to New York today to report to the United Nations On the Arab-Israclı lantion and planned to stop in Damascus on the way for talks with the Syrian government.
Syrian officials sald the raid WOR 2. reaction to Syria'e mutual
with
pact defence to speed up ratification were Exypt, and said urgent moves Egypt has already likely, begun to receive the first ship- ments of arms under her recent deal with the Communlit bloc.
REPORT DENIED
An Army spokesman stated the sources said.
this
the the from imposed Army was not practical et singe to arrange their exemp strictest secrecy on the activities
But if
Alexandria area ind in the tico from the curfew. the situation Worseng, it WAB declared the entire aren a re-
would strated military zone. that plans to move them into
The closed-off area ecvars a the ATCAP outside
region stretching five miles by Army headquarters orders wag authorised to deny a United
It
con-
understood be made guarded
a vote against France.
on the has created,
conditions for last- friendship with fast
trary. ing
country".
The organimation
naked
France to respect the de etion of the Saar people, The pro-German parties re
the Hein .... presented in
Christian- bund are the Democrats, ; the
Socialist Party
· German
the and
Democratie Party-United Prez and France-Fresc.
Adenauer "Deeply
Disturbed"
Bonn, Oct. 23.
Jubilant Bonn foes of the Saar statute declared a "victory for Germany and Europe" tonight and a "deeply disturbed" Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ordered his Cabinet to meet in an emergency session tomorrow.
While Dr Adenauer, worriedly following plebiscite returns from his sickbed, decreed a special sitting of his Cabinet under the acting Chancellor, Franz Bluecher, for his Socialist Opposition leader, Erich tomorrow, Ollenhauer, tonight called for immediate election of a new Saar legislature (Landtag). Herr Ollenhauer and Thomas Dehler, chairman
towns.
MOBILE PATROLS
The mundpal authorities of both towns have made repeated protests against the curfew,
along the coast and five miles Inland, Authorities ordered the evacuation of all residents
dating it had a damaging effect Murder Of Boys
on any businesses,
British troops and police maintained mobile patrols in Nicosia's Greek quarters all day they
and intenslated them as eusk feil.
WIJA
Elaborate security measures be enforced at Nicoda tomorrow morning as the court trial begins of Michael Karaolis, 33-year-old
355170
Man Held For Questioning
Chicago, Oct. 28.
fashionable beach resorts west of Alexandria,
Tradic between Cairo and
desert road: Alexandria on the
the Mex and which traverses
were diverted Agami districts
The Soviet nows agency, Tass, tonight reported that it
Policemen guarding traffe States State Department report checkpoints leading to Alexan-saying the Soviet toe was abso drin harbour were replaced by ready to supply arms. to Israel, Army troops to insure complete, which, fears the Egyptian bel Will upset the arms balance in milltary security.
the Middle East,
Kept Secret
Mr Moshe Sharett, Israel· Prime Minister, flew to Paris.to- The identity, of the six ships day, to tell the, "Big Four" TO
was eign ministers of Israel's fears which brought the arms not revealed by officials. on this score, and to worn the West that Israel needed STYLIS Maritime sources sald, however,
from them that the Egyptian Government's and a defence pact fro policy is to commission Egyptian or would look elsewhere.
In Paris, Mr. ships for arms Imports Instead
that ho of foreign ships
regarded
ligence.
to
foreign.
+
Sharett,
gold
Britain's
These sources said the Gov-decision to speed her arms sup. plies to treg "an added threat crnment does not want any
to Israel's
security government official charged with
A man picked up in Ten- ships commanded by
He was answering correspon the murder of a police constable,
handle top-secret dents' questions after landing Herodotus Fouls, on Nicosia's nessee with scratches on his skippers
arms and shoulders and posms cargoes in order to avoid for talks with the Big Three "Toakage" to foreign tntel- main street on August 28.
Loreign ministers on the critical, Chief Justice Sir Eric
Eastern eltuation Middle Houlinan, who will preside over sible blood stains on his shirt asalzes, informed the was brought here today for
Reuter, Nicosia Bar Association yester questioning in the strang
members of the ling of three schoolboys. day that all bench and bar and all court offers should be searched be- fore entering the court.
the
CJ INCLUDED
The reason for this measure
MIT,
These informants specifically
ship Stalingrad carried. arms to Egypt. They said the Soviet vessel Alexandria on commercial cargo service and was not chartered for military cargoes to Egypt.
denied reports that the Russian
called regularly at Train Leaves Track
Baltimore, Oct. 23.
were 'Twenty-two' 'passengers The Communist arms arrived injured today when 14 care of Railroad train month after the a Pennsylvania nearly
Major-Generat left the track at 75 miles per departure Hassan Rogab, Under-Secretary hour and overturned about 24 of here--Unlled of War, to Czechoslovakia, ob-mites north
Press
1
of
Sheriff Joseph Lohman said the man was found at Taswell,
in his Tennessee, asloop
sakl the man Sheriff Lahmac described as a Chicago resident had been Sir Eric also informed the about 27 years ckd association that he insists that here at the time:ct the slaying he himself should not be last week. exempt from this search,
Sherlit Lohman declined to was that: "Should any incident say what connection. the man Tomorrow his Cabinet will accompanied by violence occur might have with the crime. He servers noted-United Pres), of the Anti-thrash out a formal statement
tomorrow ot the trial, any possibility of said the man would be given A few hundred people gather-statute Free Democrats, joined after
discussion of
suspicion falling anyone a He detector test Saarbrueckin's
connected with the administra-morning. forces in declaring the apparent- plebische results, officials said. ly landslide victory of the pro- The Foreign Minister, Henrichtion of justice should not be into a serious international street but all was peaceful,
The Sheriff ordered extra The anti-Statute partics
German Parties at the Saar a von Brentano, now on his way hunted" published a statement tonight "victory for Germany and to Paris, will confer there to- A Turkish special constable, guards over the prisoner.
afore the final result of the Europe." vote was out saying that the While the most Aerce Leagues on,the tricky question: jured people of the Saar had
Declared their desire for opponents self-determination.
this year. Otherwise there is the danger that on the hustings it may be inflated ed
issue. Western unity is the important consideration for both countries to keep in mind.
Bao Dai Goes Nearer to Hongkong there WAS another referendum this week-end. In this vote Premier Ngo Dinh Dlem was confirmed as head of
1.
main
of the Saar statute
In the West German Parliament
2. Declared their will to the Socialists and Freo Demo-
had announced crats already rejoin Germany.
defcat the
of the projected 3. Showed
they that wanted to put an end to the "European" solution of the Saar coonomie union with France, problem, Dr Adenauer and hir
4. Rejected the Hoffman governmmt still kept quiet.
regime.
On
state of South Vietnam. They called on the present This undoubtedly presages parliament to dissolve itself so the formal deposition of that a new government could be the former emperor, Bao constituted. This new govern- Dni who has long shownment would then resume nego
the future of the himself incapable of bring-tiatlons ing unity to his troubled Saar.
The parties said that today's is doubtful It country.
vote was not à vote against whether Mr Diem is an France. They called
on the ideal substitute although Western European Union to con- the voting figures appear tinue to guarantee the exerciso Impressive.
of political freedom of the Saar.
The chronte problem which
the referendum does not solve at all is the sectional feuding which has gravely
SENDS CABLES ·
Earlier Dr Schneider, who
Hospitality. For Newsmen
300 the
Baarbrucken, Oct. 23. The Bear Government
of cach presented Journalists covering Baar plebiscite with five elgars, 20 cigarettes and a bar of chocolate.
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morrow with his Western col Medjay Seylk, was seriously in-
YOUTHS CLEARED Limassol In
when 1 "What now?"-United Press.
Lie detector tests eacller today terrorist hurled a grenade at
had cleared two youths named
FINAL ASSAULT Rabat, Oct. 23. French Infantry columns, backed by aircraft, attacked steep slopes in the RT moun- tains of French Morocco today to reconquer the last important area still held by rebel, tribes- TH
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The constable was cycling to as members of an alleged Take Advantage of our
duty within the Grock sector orgy" gang and rounded up in of Limassol when a bomb burst the behind him. He was rushed to hospilal-Router.
Ike Loses Weight
Denver, Oct. 23. President Elsenhower stood upright unaided today for tho first time since, his heart attack, The scars showed that he had dropped four pounds in the long time month stace he
Military source summing up
situation the mountain
after three wocks sald serious rebel resistance had collapsed, but mopping-up could bo expected to continue, for a Reuter.
hospitalRouter.
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A Get-Together At Windsor Castle
Windsor, Oct;: 28.
with her sister, the
'Observers here felt that Princess Margaret had talked Queen, and the Duke of Edinburgh in Windsor Castle today about her rumoured romance with Group Captain Poter Townsend.
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In addition, a free meal and wine and free beer were served to all journal- watching the official scoreboard to the Parlia ment building.. Outside, 20 weakened central authority hailed the result as a "victory
policemen pairolled tho and undermined the coun- for Germany," sent telegrama
to Dr Thomas Dehler, Chal Arounds of the Parlament try's political and economic
out de- building to keep re- man of the Free Democratic stability, Mr · Diem's
Party accond largest in Dr Bounding vote might be Konrad Adenauer's
Special. welcomed If it heralded an meat coalition, to Herr Jacob end to these debilitating Kaiser, the Christian Democra
all German problems. But in fact it the Minister for
Herr Pelcr daps nothing of the sort. The Affairs,
Ha Premier possibly gains some Altmeler, Christian Democastle,
It was believed that a crisis The Queen, as head of the answered the door once to tell Increased prestige in his Premier of the bordering West la marby Risendorf homa, ro-
German stato of Rheinland vealed that the, 79-year-old had been reached it within the Church of England, may not reporters hold not intend to own country, "but that Palatinate.
statoman and ardent supporter royal family and that Margaret formally approve herster's go out until this evening.
But as always, he declined and an assurance...of con-
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It was believed that they had The Windsor get-together was her discussed the recent meetings seen as a crucial turning point whether or not she would wed Men's Pyjamas. between the Poincess and the in the drama that was built up Townsend.
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