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THE predx "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to indieate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommand estions Urdinance, 1936, Such news as tears the indication "U" is received in Hongkong on the date of

THE RUSSIAN QUESTION MARK

Storm Centre in the West

UST over four years ago

Jus

Saarland miners and steel workers shook hands with their friends from France who were the United Press Ausociationlation by going back home over the Lor serve all rights and forbid republication, raine border because, as a re- either wholly or in part without previous gult of the Plebiscite, the Shar arrangement.

Imponderables

who re

was returning to the German Reich,

They smiled at each other, clapped

In times of crisis the materially-cach other on the shoulder and sold: "We will meet again at holiday minded thinker usually assumes the times. It is not good-bye.”

role of a realist and, in attempting to

The French Army Is digging its heels Into the Saar, that rich industrial area which, four years after voling its return to the Reich, finds itself the centre of the Western Front

activity. Here

MARY FERGUSION who mixed freely with tho Saarlanders during the 1035 plebiscite, tells you about these people who, untli 1035, were werkmates of the Frenchmen they are now fighting.

"We will not victimise the mass of} the people in your ranka," he added, "apart, of course, from taking their jobs from them and giving them to our own people.

"But we shall certainly not tolerate the trade unions or their socleties.

"I would advise you and your fellow leaders to get away as quickly as you can."

All the loose money in the Neun- kirchen trade union offices was im- mediately confiscated by local Hit- lerites and handed over to the Nazi Welfare Fund.

Dr. Eugene Fried, editor of a Saar- left after the on American, another English journa- louis Labour paper, But they never wanted it to hap-list and I collected some money he- plebiselte, taking 200 colleagues with

and The Saarlanders

the tween us and gave it to the women French understood each other per- to buy milk for their children.”

When the plebiscite was being

To-day these same men are divided be prophetis, endeavours to balance by the guns and shells that spalter

death along the Siegfried Line. ascertainable .facts. He predicts

success for that side on which he pen, finds. the weightiest arguments. fectly. Armaments, success in diplomatic ex- changes, the disposition of racial soildarity, and geographical ad- vantages are the weights in his scales, In following this method, however, he can to inore prophesy the actual course of events than a speculator NAZI Brownshirts swaggered in free criticism of what the

on the snowy pavements, Nazis are doing," I wrote. with his books of statistics.and.chartshustling-timid-men-and-women-Among other facts about the the borders, grim-faced- Nazis took can surely. predict the course of the towards the Nazi headquarters brutality of the Nazla to Socialist their photographs to add to the Nazl

to listen to a wireless talk about Saarlanders that market.

the greatness of Adolf Hitler. these:

forces, inken on that, freezing January day AFTER writing that report DURING the night of the plebiscite the home of the went to Saargemund. French Consul in Saarbrucken in 1935 I sat in a cafe in Saarbrucken with a German and a Frenchman, "Every train from Saarbrucken was besleged with people who watching the snow swirling down

is filled with emigres-people wanted to get away to safety outside.

who are fleeing from their over the Lorraine border and homes because they have spoken into Forbach,

As the frightened mine and steel workers and their familles fled across

learnt were book of horrors.

Thousands filed from their homes, The result is that calculations quick-

At Sparlouis acid was thrown on ly become subordinated to wishful The German, a sicelworker who the face of man because he was leaving behind them all they owned. Hundreds of thousands stayed at was a Saarlander by birth, thumped an ardent trade unionist. Socialist thinking. Men form their opinions the table with his clenched Bst and leaders in the Saar were told, two their jobs and kept their mouths according to their habitual point of and to us: "We will teach these up- days after the plebiscite was taken, shut. The scorn and hatred they view. For this reason it is well not starts a lesson soon. They have no that there was no hope of clemency felt for the Nazis was hidden in their hearts, waiting for expression on the manners. Who made them think for then. to accept as conclusive arguments that every German wanted to be a

ond M. Etienne,

of the Socialist day that the world turned on the based on these supposed determining Nazi?"

leaders in Neunkirchen, approached Nazi brute to drive it out of exisi- the representative of Herr Buerckel, ence. factors, but to turn one's thought more to these Imponderables which in the long run haye more inducare than "realism" will admit.

SAILORS DON'T LIKE SWIMMING

«IT is surprising how few saflors can swim," said one of the Courageous sur- vivors in the Daily Express.

Certainly the Navy don't do very well in Inter-service swim- asing sports. From 1024-1037 the Navy won three times, the Army won eight times, they dead- heated once, and the RA.F. won: twice.

The explanation is largely that the Navy is too scattered ta develop teams of specialists. But It is a fact that sallors rather despise swimming: yet they like rowing, off-duty.

The psychologist explains this, apparent contradiction as follows: "Subconsciously the sailor musi be frightened of the sea. It is a hostile thing which he is always fighting. Therefore he must strive to remain master of it.

"To concedo that the ought to learn to swim would be to concede the possibility of 1 situation arising in which he would, bo' at the sea's mercy. On the other hand rowing a boot in his spare Lime strengthens his feeling' of mastery,"

This sounds

bit far-fetched, but remember we are dealing with the subconscious mind,

The Admiralty's attitude is that a.man who can't swim is a poten-. tlal danger not only to himself but to others. So nowadays every. would-be sailor must pass swimming test in clothes before he is allowed to to to sea. The test includes Boating in clothes for five minutes, and is conducted in fresh water to make it more diffleuit,

The Frenchman sipped his wine Hitler's Commissioner for the Saar, Adolf Hitler must be a very wor Freud's Son

and shrugged his shoulders. You and tried to get from him a declara- ried Leader, because the people of will learn that all Germans must be on that Socialists in Neunkirchen the Saar are, in the main, not his Nazis," he said, as though speaking would not be terrorized.

people. They are democrats who to a child,

Herr Buerckel's representative said love freedom.

Ilitler has enemies on both sides of Foremost among these comes the The Saarlander grumbled that we that this was impossible; that they

ing for the Siegfried Line to break. actual state of mind of the peoples were making a mistake, for the would follow the example of Ger- the Sanr borders who are just wait-

people of the Saar were Socialists many concerned. The vast majority are and did not approve of the Nazi wholly opposed to use of force as a methods br creed.

means of settling International -dis- putes. There can be no room for doubt on this score,

★

THE world knows how the Saarlanders went to the poll What of the rulers themselves? Do next day, and put crosses on they believe that by foreing a altan-their voting papers giving the ilon fraught with so much evil they Sanr to Hitler.

Since then they have learnt what

can establish a new set of laws of their own and thrust aside the statutes it means to be Germans under Nazi

upon which the order of universe is poised, statutes of which it has been written that "they stand fast for ever and ever and are done in iruth and uprightness"?

rule.

Now the guns are booming in Saurland, where normally a million decent, hard-working miners, steel and iron workers, glass and brewery workers live-folk who have no quarrel with the French or any other

To desist from the use of force as people. a means of getting one's own way,

Those people remember what hap- which preponderating strength has pened four and a half years ago, seemed to assure, may be a hard thing when they said "Yes" la.the Nazi for human pride to swallow, but I wooer.

may be still harder to disregard the Miners who said openly they, did very influential and cogent appeals not like the Nazis were told to go

and vote or else. for peace made in the last few days.

Workers in heavy industries who The greatest of all the impander-appeared reluctant were told they ables, however, is the question or would be expected to "vole right," and that a Nazi agent would call to morale, wherever conscience makes take them to the polling station. elther cowards or heroes of us all.

On Thursday, January 17, 1935, However Inviting to the bully may be I wrot in n dispatch to the Dukly the prospect afforded by a limit and Herald":-

ineffectual opposition, the situation is reported from many parts of the Saar "Outbreaks of Nazi terrorism were completely altered when armness and territory to-day. courage show clearly that supposedly

I went to-day to the mining town

superior force is not to be allowed of Dudweller, where I was taken by to have things all its own way!!!

Bucti Imponderables are trystallis ing and detaching themselves from the chaolte vapours' that taint the alt.

an official of the mines to see 40 familles who have left their homes and have been given temporary shelter in a big workmen's hut. - "So pitiful was the sight of the' children crying for food, that a Swiss -

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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EXPERT REPAIRS

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Heads Legion

Of Freedom

IN a house in Westbourne Terrace,

By Lichty Bayswater, in a room furnished only

"The Old road was only wide enough for two cars, but this new highway can accommodate four smash-ups and

room to spare.!

with a large-scale map of dend Austria, meet a group of people pledged te resurrect their country from the annihilatlon she has suffer- ed at the hands of Hitler.

Headed by the eldest son of Pro- fessor Sigmund Freud, the great psychologist who died reccritly, they are entolling pleked men to form un | Ayutrina Legion.

"There are some thousands of us Austrians in Britain, öll rofugees," said Mr. Freud. "I nerved' for four yeurs in the Great War, first as a volunteer, later as a commissioned officer, and many of us have fought against Britons in the past. This tline we want to fight with them.

"We are not willing to see you go and fight against our destroyer and stay here cauing your food protected by your arms, and snatch what we can get in the "way" of "Joba,' careers or money.

"We wish to fight,not only for the freedom of Austria but the freedom of the world. Only when Germany --Nazi Germany... Is broken can we Austrians 'build a new Austria.”

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