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RETURN OF SAAR TO

GERMANY

Interval For Settlement Of Technical Tasks

London, Jan. 15.

The general view taken in Bri- tish circles with regard to the Saar Plebiscite result is that, quite apart from every other considera- tion, the emphatic nature of the vote has definitely simplined the situation.

British interest in the Saar has naturally been considerably in- creased by the leading role which British troops have taken in the measures for ensuring the main- tenance of order there, and it is with considerable gratification that British opinion notes the absence herto of any serious disorder. Some anxious days still remain, but there is increasing confidence that these will pass in compara- Live peace.

There seems little doubt that the decision" of the Council, by which the Saar territory will be reunited to Germany, will in fact now be little more than A formality. The main polat that remains to be decided is the

length of the interregnum re quired to enable the transfer to take place.

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MATTERS FOR DECISION

Certain matters which have to be done will require time. For example, the Customs offices on "the west of the territory will be removed and others substituted on

COUNCIL MEETING

London, Jan. 15. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Binister, is probably going to Geneva on Thursday, or Friday to attend the meetings of the League Council which will decide the length of period necessary for the. transference of the administration of the Saar, and the date for the withdrawal of the International Force..

-Tha British Government

is in

favour of a spedy decision as to the length of the transitional period, which, it is felt should he as short, as possible.

Saar and the rest of Germany will The customs barrier between the

be taken down, and presumably the customs bar between the Saar, and France will also be removed.

It is presumed that arrange- ments will have to be made where- by the Saarlanders will be able to exchange franca for Germany cur-

rency.

Well informed circles are of the. opiniton that the demilitarisation provisions of the Versalles Treaty will automatically apply. to the Saar as being part of Germany.-- Reuter.

COUNCIL PROCEDURE

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the east, while local administra-graphic Messager

Ordinanes, 1895.

tion will also have to be transfer Received, January 16, 7.30 pm.)

curency problem bu

the

red. The been dealt with, in part by Aloisi Committee appointed by the League Council and in part by the Bank of International Settlements. The geographical position of the Saar assures that it will become part of a demilitarised zone. One of the last things likely to happen before the transfer of the territory

will be the withdrawal of the in- ternational force.

Geneva, Ján, 18. Four o'clock is fixed for the first meeting of the League of Nations Council which will be secret but to be followed by the public session. In the latter, council will once mare ..take "coght- sance of the result of the Baur

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Plebiscite, then hear the report of the chairman of the Plebiscite Commission, Rohde. The Council president, Tewk Rushdi Aras will cil to fix dates on these matters then call on Baron Afolal to speak Received, January 16, 7.30. p.m.):

and formally propose that the Eaar territory be returned

It remains for the League Cour-

on recommendations made to it by

Baron Aloisi's Baar Committee.

un-

In an earlier report of that Com-divided to the Reich as soon as

mittee it was suggested that a minimum time limit should be

fixed tó allow for the ad- ministration transfers, and, the period they suggested was one

month.

Some time ago, both the Ger-

man and French

Governments

gave an assurance that, whatever the result of the vote might be, minorities should not be subjected to reprisals or discrimination.

It is anticipated that Sir John Simon will return to Geneva to- wards the end of week to parti- cipate in the Council's decisions, He has already made known his desire that the necessary arrange- ments shall be completed within the shortest possible time. British Wireles

of

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graphic. "Messeger Ordinance, 1893. (By Telegraph, Copyright, Tale-

MOSCOW

MOSCOW CONSPIRACY

TRIAL

Zinovieff's Responsibility For Kirov Murder

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- Daily - Press"). Pag (By Telegraph,... Copyright, - Tala íraphic | Musanger: "Ordinance, 1891. Receiced, January 16, 430 p.

Leningrad, Jan. 16. The high treason trial against Zinovief. Kamenev and 17 others Kopered here yesterday. !

situation and which in substance. had been an absolute" repilent of the intelligence service establish- ed by the White Quards Since this illegal political group had spread the Ides of terror,, the Leningrad murder must be con- sidered the outcome of its policy.

The indictment accuses Zinovieff According to the Indictment and his group of political and framed against the accused Zino-moral responsibility for the. Kirov vieff Kameney and the fellow murder conspirators bad established

secret organisation which had of late carried on a vigorous anti- Soviet propaganda and which had.. been responsible for the murder] of Kirov.

.

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FIRST RATE SENSATION

Moscow, Jan. 15. The Kirov assassination inquisi- tion has produced a sudder and In the course of investigation) starling development in the it had been proved, that the illegal publication of an indictment of the organisation which executed the so-called Moscow "Centre Group,!! murder of Kirov had been incomposed, inter alla of M. Zino touch with the political group in vieff and M. Kameney, who Moscow called "Moscow Centre" alleged to have been involved in and this group in reality conduct a counter-revolutionary "plot in ed the entire ant-Soviet move conjunction with members of the ment,

"Moscow Centre" had at-Leningrad Group who were execut- tempted to unite all persons hosed in December.

are

tile to the Soviet and to the The news has created a first- party and to train them illegally rate sensation, but it is not ex- In an effort to set up a body of i pected that novleft and Kamenev leaders to wage war on the party. will be sentenced to death, as no The group used every means at old Bolshevik has hitherto been their disposal to discredit the executed. government and the party. The A semi-official agency announ- group did cot shun to spread "les | ces that both Zinoviet and and basenesses" of a new party Kamenev have pleaded guilty to leadership and state, ever estab the charge that they belonged to lished their own "intelligence sera counter-revolutionary group, in vice strongly criticizing the Soviet Leningrad- Union's

domestic Reuter.

foreign and

REORGANISATION

OF S.M.R.

After Transfer Of CE Railway

Iren,anuary 16. It is learned that following the acquisition of the Chinese Eastern Railway the South Manchuria

from

SHIPBUILDING IN BRITAIN

Greater Activity Revealed

London, Jan, 16, The quarterly return of Lloyd's Register issued to-day shows that London Jan. 16. Under the leadership of the

construction of British merchant Archibishop of Canterbury a come Raliway Company will be rear-shipping was 80 per cent. greater A special train to Saarbruecken

mittee consisting of representa-ganized exclusively for railway at the end of December than the tives of 46 organisations of all undertakings to Manchuria and year previously. carrying the ballot papera from parts of England was formed with detached

The British total of new ship all enterprises the plebiscite arrived here on

the object of purging the country totalling more than sixty which Ping in hand, 596,834 tons, repre- Tuesday night, having been heavily of undestrabe fims and the ap the S.MR. Company at present sents 47.7 per cent. of the world's guarded on the whole route. After plication of the recount which will take place and censorship.

The tremendous im total, and exceeds the aggregate sharper supervision operates. in the next few days under the

pending reorganization is sending output of seven leading countries

abroad. The delegation of this committee SMR. stocks tumbling towards supervision of the League N-waited or Mr. Ramsay MaeDonad nity from well over sixty until

The tonnage now-building tions officials, the balloting papers

abroad, 654,888 tons, is about 52,- will be burned so that no possible

000 tons less than the total for the which way the individuals voted

Preceding quarter, but is : 229,000 tons above the figure of a year ago. Transocean Kuo Min

trace, however remote, will remain

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on Tuesday night and handed over

the memorandum, demanding the pintment of a parliamentary enquiry committee,

Mr. MacDonald promised to give:

memorandum his attention

recently.

Mr. Yoshiaki Hatta, Vice-Presi dent of the S.M.R. is prominently mentioned as likely to succeed as incumbent president.

the

Count Hirotaro Hayashi ex- and consider

the possibility of plains the

but reorganization tightening the censorship so as to there has been no decision yet eliminate from the cinema life Any such reorganization requires Alms prejudicial to public morals.much time for consideration, Transnccan Kun. Min.

Reuter

RICKARDS AND JOSEPH REMANDED

Berlin, Jan. 16.- The German Press this morning features a Bhanghai despatch quoting the Chinese press com- ments on the result of the Ger- man landslide in the Baar which Five Conspiracy Trial Sequel surpassed even "the most optimis-

also adds that the Chinese Press regards the Saar outcome as a new triumph for Hitler. Transocean Kuo Min

"BRITISH" PRESS COMMENT

London, Jan 18.: The general sense of relief that the Saar voting went off without serious disturbance and was such a decisive nature as to aim plify the task of the League Countie expectations. The despatch cil is reflected in all British news paper comments this morning The hope is expressed that Saarlanders will continue to display discipline and calm during the period of waiting which is inevitable in or der 40 permit technical tasks of transfer to be completed in good order and that the League Conn- cil will curtail that period to the shortest time practicable, P.

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BATCH OF EMIGRANTS

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As to wider considerations ~ the view is expressed that a clearcut decision removes a thorn which en

might have inflamed all Europe.

London, Jan. 15,

After sixteen days hearing, the Bow Street Magistrate has r manded the case against Freder- ick Edgar Rickards and Henry Joseph, charged in connection with developments arising from the fre conspiracy trial of Leopold Harris and others in 1933, until January 18, for committal to the Old Bal- ley

NEW FLYING BOATS

Formation Flight To Singapore

London, Jan. 16,

new nying boats, with No: 265-Flying Bost ron stationed at Bing Fore 1 to be é-equipped, yesterday, left Pembroke Dock formation flight

Both the accused pleaded not This is the first time guilty.

sees, squadron ba ipped by aut.

nded by

were

Paris Jan. 16, first batch of 30- Baar Rickards and Joseph mts including several leading | charged with unlawfully conspir with their families cross- ing with Harris and others frontier Into France near def insurance companfes

on Tuesday according to a making fraudulent claims

GOEBBELS ATTACK

A bitter

Hitler's statement that a decl" | ed sive step had been taken toward gradual reconciliation and that report by the semi-official Franch Beuter Germans would – not withhold newsagency which states that a themselves from the tasks neces- special control, bureau for fugitiven sary for "genuine solidarity of from Saar had been established at nations is coupled with that of Forbach the French Premier, Flandin that Franco-German-relations would "progressively improve with colla beration

in European - Deace as their goal and the hope ed that further

European pacificati ble

spiri

The Chief of the French Becu

ity police told a representative of on Mi Petit Journal that about 5,000 Che Saar emigrants had been accomo- by Ge

ited in quarters prepared for ing them near Toulon while

fugitives will be

Bordeaux

near

added

un, Jan. 15 attack has been made urey Knox Chairman Governing Commission Goebbels, in

apee delivered out-

stry of Propaganda

aister said that

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four day

In British yards 93,428 tona were laid down during the last three montha, showing an increase of 18,517 tons over the September quarter. In the same period 109,- 460 tons were begun abroad. British Fizden.

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ABYSSINIA'S COMPLAINT

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CONVERSION LOAN

Australia's Low Money Rates

London, Jan, 16.

A further Australian conversion Tela-loan is announced to-day by which 1896 the outstanding amount of £22- 284,000 of Commonwealth five per Geneva, Jan, 18. cent. Ioan 1935/45 first Issued 13 Certain council members go 80 years ago is to be converted into far as to assert that totally unequal amount of 34 per cent to expected action WAS taken on be redeemable 1956/81. This Tuesday night by the Abyssinian operation will yield a total annual representative in Geneva, who is saving on interest of £510,000 in also the Abyssinian minister in Australian currency and of €407- presenting General Avenol with 000 in English. the formal demand that the Abys This is thenath conversion sinlan-Italian dispute be placed on to be carried out by the Common- the agenda at the present League wealth Government in little more of Natips Council session. Up till than two years and brings the total Dow Abyssinia on the advice of saying in interest charge on debt most of the great powers refrain- up to £2,457,000 English and 83,- ed from pressing this demand.080,000 Australian. The new loan

Avenol at once complied and is being underwritten to-day. placed the Abyssinian-Italian di- pute on the order of the day- Fransocean Kuo, Min

A remarkable Improvement in Australian financial and economic position in recent years has en- abled the Commonwealth to take full advantage of the exception-

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ADHERENCE TO ally low money rates.

WORLD COURT

American Senators

Views

Washington, Jan 15

"sponger," declared Senator Joseph TRobinson of Arkansas 1 speech in the Senate in which he advocated America's adherence to the World Court

Mr Thomas D. Gore, the bind Senator from Oklahoma, presented a reservation to prevent America's The United States would be adherence until the other nations Involved in no foreign entan- who are members of the World glements if she joined the World Court paid their war debts Court, but if she did not join the United States

the designation Renter.

ANGLO-FRENCH would, deserve

MEETING

Attempt To Solve Large Issues

London, Jan

the British

GAS

Fireside

Comfort