A singular but important case has recently come before the Provisional Court in connection with a defendant in a civil action, a native of the Sarre region, Mr. Leon Meiser, who, when brought before the Court, urged that he was a French protege.
will be remembered that the Juridical status of the Sarre was established by the Treaty of Versail les and that France is administering, }it under a mandate from the League of Nations.
After fifteen years a plebiscite will be taken of the inhabitants of the district to enable them to decide upon their future nationality—French or German, and_ France that the defendants had paid to Boone Road. The matter came be- 2 protects citizens of the Sarre in in the same manner as she plaintiff all that was taken over, and it was agreed they should be made at least intelligible before he took them over. Part of the extra compensation was not on account. of him being secretary and trea-
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