Zweibruecken, May 6.
More than 250,000 persons took part in to-day's demonstration of the Saar Germans in Zwelbrucken, a small town near the frontier.
Special railway trains enabled large crowds to come from all parts of Germany to take part in the demonstration. Thousands of Saar people came afoot from across the frontier into Germany. Many others who tried to come on motor-cycles or cars found the roads littered with nails, spikes and broken glass in order to make postage by motor impossible.
Dr, Joseph Paul Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, whose speech was the feature of programme, spoke from the balcony of the newly-built gymnasium and athletic hall, in contradistinction to most demonstra: tions held since the advent of the National Socialist regime, civil cloth. ing predominated, the only brown shirts being visible being those of members of the storm detachments acting as stewards. The stream of people marching from Saar territory Into the Reich had been flowing since dawn.
Dr, Goebbels, who was greeted with vociferous cheers, began his speech by delivering the greetings of Reichs-president Marshal von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adoit Hitler and whole German people," who in this hour declare before the whole world that the spirit of the Saar is the spirit of Germany and the flesh of the Saar ig flesh of the Reich.
"The Versailles treaty actually commits the unprecedented presumption to. ask us Saarlanders, after the lapse of fifteen years, to hold a plebiscite in order to declare to which nation we belong. Every Frenchman who hag visited Saar territory knows that its population is German to the core and that the plebiscite must end with a positive defeat for Franc Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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