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Scottish Air Mail Letter, giving all the latest news in that city, is published on

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Zweibruecken, May 7. "By the Treaty of Versailles the Two hundred and afty thousand Saar was

the tom away from persons took part in a proclama-Reich, the reason given for this then on Sunday. Germans of the step being, untrue, that the popu- Saar Zweibruecken a small town lation were French. The Versailles Our motor supplement is given near the Saar Frontier just inside Treaty actually commits the un- the Reich. Cheap excursion trains precedented presumption that to from all parts of Germany brought ask us, Saarlanders, after a lapse The crowds to make this demonstra of 15 years to hold a plebiscite to tion whose size alone would. Im declare to which nation we belong press the world. Thousands of Every Frenchman who has visited Saar people came across the fron-

the Saar knows that the Saar po- tier into the Reich on foot. The pulation is German to the core crowd was in high spirits owing and that a plebiscite must end to the glorious sunshine and bril-with defeat for France. lant spring weather. Goebbels

"The long desired opportunity to" whose speech Was the essential show that the Saar statute of the feature of the programme spoke Treaty of Versailles is based on from the balcony of the athletic false suppositions la welcome to of war debts has been re-hall. The crowd assembled on the

us but we regret that this strug- aroused by the Attorney-General's sports ground opposite, and across

gle for the return to the Reich ruling that Britain is not a de- the whole width of the athletic was forced upon us and could not fauker under the Johnson Act, hall was a flag with a vast easie have been peacefully arranged by coupled with news that President with spread wings. To Roosevelt is sending a War Debts and right the flag of the Third voluntary agreement in the inter- Message to Congress within a

Relch doated in "the breeze. The sts of "good neighbourship be. stream of people marching from tween country and country in the fortnight.

the Saar, into the Reich had been words of Adolf Hitler, this is the

last hindrance remaining in th daylight. At the flowing since beginning of the event the whole way of a true understanding be assembly sang the fifth verse of tween France and Germany." the Saar hymn to the tune of the Just Bavarian advance march. before Goebbels rose to speak the

Washington, May 7. Speculation regarding the future

The Attorney General ruling is regarded in diplomatic circles as decidedly advantageous' to Bri- tain, and as clearing the way to further negotiations for a settle-

ment.

the left

& CO., LTD. confrmation is lacking, that Bri-district National Socialist leader

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

EST. 1841.

any due.

The

The

Sair

Goebbels who WORLD CABLES

IN BRIEF

*455,174 persons entitled to vot at the Plebiscite are to day firmly It is reported, although official

organised in the "German front" This is 93 per cent. of the total tain is carrying on diplomatic ne- In the plenatinate Puerkel in a number of people living in the gotiations for another token pay- brief introductory speech recalled Saar who are entitled to vote. The ment on June 15, on the under- the fact that the Saar had be- Saar People belong for more than standing that talks for the final longed

over a thousand years to the German .to Germany for thousand settlement will be resumed before a

years and that nation."-Transocean Kuo Min. December Instalment

of the falls the workers Berlin in 1936. For the first time

made but one appeal to France,.. namely to leave the way clear ALLEN FREUNDEN UND in the history of the Far Eastern

IMPORTANT SUGGESTION China

sending is

for the plebiscite. BEKANNTEN, insbesondere den Games.

to President's Message

was greeted with cheers began to Mitgliedern der. Deutschen women's section to Manila.

conveyed greetings ladies will not participate in any Congress is expected to asks for Kolonie, die unserem verstor-

approval of a settlement with Fin- speak and benen Sohne und Bruder of the contests but wil give land under which ad future in- from Hindenburg, Hitler and the

letzten exhibitions with the object of

terest will be waived and the prth-whole German people, who, said this hour declared showing other countries, that

cipal amount will become payable Goebbels. In Cathay's daughters are now no

A before the whole world that the over a period of fifty years. longer the stay-at-home type, but special clause to waive interest will spirit of the Saar is the spirit of A healthy, broad-minded girl, be applied retroactively to past Germany, the flesh of the Saar ready to take her place along with

is the flesh of the Reich For the ladies of other nations in

Observers in Washington are the time is past, said the Minister. every walk of life. This we con-

discussing the prospects "of a when the German nation presen- tend, is a step in the right direc-similar arrangement with Britain, ted to the world the disgraceful tion and one which augurs well

The British Embassy, however, re-example of internal dismember- for the future of the country. fuses to comment on the sugges-ment and endless party political

tion-Reuter.

antagonisms. Germany is again

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united nation and in this nation ves

one 'united people. This people sends through the

Kunc V. Sick die Ehren erwiesen haben,, sagen wir auf diesem Wege unseren

tiefempfundenen Dank! 12531

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Turning to the Japanese repre- sentatives we have also some ob- servations to make but the one

TPS that must be taken first is that

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, MAY 6, 1934.

THE OLYMPICS

their swimmers have decided attack the existing world records in the YMCA. Bath, Kowloon, on their way home from the Olym- pics. The Japanese have always been regarded as a nation with in

payments.

ITALIAN NAVAL

BUILDING

partiality for sport, particularly Signor Mussolini

tennis." swimming, track and feld events. They play a good deal of baseball and of late they have taken to both

association and rugby football, but their efforts at acquatics have long since com-

manded the

Changes Mind

Rome, May 8.

German

men and

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A returned banishee made a startling statement, at the Kowloon, Magistracy yester- day when he claimed birth on British soll, namely the New Territories and al- though he admitted return- ing from banishment, asked for a consideration of his plea. The case was post- poned pending further 1- quiries.